Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Oct 21st, 2010
Sometimes it takes a trip away to fully appreciate what you have. Even when your destination happens to be a prestigious hotel in the beautiful Dovedale in the Derbyshire Peak District. As a full blown outdoor devotee, I can recognise and savour dramatic peaks and ruggedness as much as the next man (many thanks btw [...]
Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Aug 13th, 2010
I’m not sure whether the head-rush was caused by the Red Arrows at Airbourne (which started here yesterday on Eastbourne sea front) or news that we’ve been short-listed for Tourism South East’s Bed & Breakfast/Guest Accommodation of the Year 2010 award. We’ve an assessor coming to have a look around so the kayak might have [...]
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 Dec 11th, 2009
The last time I saw this classy outfit was in Cusco, Peru back in 2005 and the only similarity with Eastbourne I can muster is the barely-positive temperature outside. A pre-Christmas cracker indeed – as the St Petersburg ballet perform a collection of classics on consecutive evenings from Tuesday 15th December, including Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Nutcracker and [...]
Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Dec 1st, 2009
lastminute.com top 10 travel blogs – The Guesthouse East is apparently helping to modernise Eastbourne – the face of new Eastbourne accommodation maybe?
Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Nov 26th, 2009
Given the amount of mouthfuls I swallow on every swim it’s just as well – the sea on Eastbourne’s main beachfront has been upgraded from ‘Good’ in 2008 to ‘Excellent’ this year. And that’s despite the increased numbers if all those ‘staycationers’ enjoying the homegrown sea air and fine views rather than skipping over to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Oct 29th, 2009
Nostalgic, fervent and gripping and refined – no, I’m not referring to The Guesthouse East – The LPO return to Eastbourne with Brahms’ fourth symphony, arguably the composer’s finest achievement. The performance at the Congress theatre, just a few minutes walk from Eastbourne’s award-winning accommodation, starts at 3pm on Sunday November 1st. Tickets from £12.
Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Oct 27th, 2009
Eastbourne B&B provides the perfect backdrop for filming All sorts of action this weekend as Brighton Rock filming came to life in Eastbourne, with Hartington Place, the home of The Guesthouse East, providing the perfect back-drop for the all-star cast. Thankfully we played host to our friend Tim Fox Evans, a professional photographer, for the [...]