A Walk on the Winter Side
Winter at an English beach is definitely “chill.”
© Joyce McGreevy
Winter Wanderlust in East Sussex
Rows of wooden beach huts are locked up tight, their colors vibrant as summer memories. Gray waves lunge at the Seven Sisters, chalk cliffs along England’s South Coast. January winds drive sand in fitful circles around deserted picnic tables.
Before beach huts were introduced in the 1900s, changing for a swim was done in a
bathing machine that, for modesty’s sake, was towed out to sea.
© Joyce McGreevy
But here we come in our oilskin jackets, woolen scarves flapping gamely in the wind. We are the winter travelers, hardy wanderers who love to travel out of season. This year, winter wanderlust leads some of us to East Sussex.
Do the Seven Sisters cliffs look familiar? They stood in for the White Cliffs of Dover
in the movie ...
