Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Sep 1st, 2010
We’re approaching the end of a long, sun-drenched (at least here in Eastbourne) and action-packed summer, completing our first year here, and even this irrepressibly enthusiastic hotelier is starting to feel a tad jaded.
Whether it’s bag carrying for guests, kayak hauling or indeed newborn winding that’s caused the trouble, I’ve had to call on Tina, [...]
Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on May 4th, 2010
If you need further encouragement to head south and hit the downs, which finish, rather conveniently for the Guesthouse East, just down the road at Beachy Head and Eastbourne – The Sunday Times travel section had a centre spread this weekend highlighting that Britain’s newest national park has majestic monuments, stirring scenery and terriffic pubs [...]
Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Feb 21st, 2010
With scenery from chalk grassland to rolling wooded hills, coastal plains and magnificent cliffs such as Beachy Head and the Seven Sisters, the South Downs has just appeared in The Times ‘Top 20 places to cycle’.
And the marketing team at Eastbourne Tourism must be enjoying their Sussex breakfasts this morning with another top recommendation (again [...]
Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Feb 5th, 2010
Apparently Eastbourne has been touting itself as the New Brighton for yonks but maybe the hype is finally morphing into reality.
It remains a curious blend of old school chintz (certainly east of the pier), historical glamour and aspirational charm – the property development, Gresham House, next to us here at The Guesthouse East on Hartington Place sums it [...]
Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Nov 24th, 2009
I’m constantly being amazed at the beauty and opportunities within a stone’s throw of here at The Guesthouse East in Eastbourne.
We took advantage of a rare spare afternoon this weekend to head to the Seven Sisters National Park, just ten minutes down the road. There are 280 hectares of chalk cliffs, a meandering river to [...]
Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Nov 13th, 2009
It’s taken 60 years since it was first earmarked for protection, but the South Downs, stretching from Beachy Head near Eastbourne (just a mile or so along the beach from The Guesthouse East) to the edge of Winchester in Hampshire, has finally been given national park status becoming England’s 9th.
South Downs becomes a national park
Looking [...]