‘IThe lady who makes us coffee at the Nice Café, while looking at the flat landscape, says that you either love her or hate it. A clear feeling clear.
The place has always been an inspiration for artists, photographers, architects and writers, which was drawn by the atmosphere in the other world, and the connections of strange patterns and changing gray blue light.
It was directed me two years ago, when I decided that this would make a great environment for a major scene in my movie “Film”. It ends with my main character at Metropole, a completely imaginary hotel. I wish it was: the jewel of art-the beach’s Deco. With fog entering, a mysterious widow recognizes more than his ghost writer around the mysterious circumstances of his wife’s death. It looked like the right place to ask for romantic suspense.
Our brief stay is clearly less. We start with lunch in the snack cottage on the beach: pink juice, fat, fried fish in flat bread, red cabbage, and fried potatoes (nothing is clear like chips here), the wickers and Halloumi taste of symbols in the sea air, even in less than the head of the head.
We walk through Mishmash from rural houses and cabins – everywhere you look at, Martin Bar meets Digest architectural; Next to the bright green pingles with the ST George flag and the laundry line in the front, there is a black cube in the middle of the century with glass from the floor to the ceiling.
The things that were found, gravel sculptures, piles of hunting networks, rust machines and abandoned boats away from the sea, all add to a feeling of mystery; What was left to degradation gently, and what was coordinated with love?
We go to Pilot Inn to get half a liter, and its reactionary interior design made of pine is already packed at 6 pm with the locals who have generous parts of fish and potatoes, “the best in England”, according to the late director Derek GarmanWhich overlooks his previous home, Prospect Cottage, on the beach.
While we are walking through the shingles, the rolling fog that I imagined appears in my book. In front of us is the flash package of the lighthouse shrouded by the sea fog. We follow the straight line of the mini -railway path, which was worn by a slightly strange yellow sound from the nuclear power plant.
We return it across the swamps to our home all night, West Cottage, one of them is two previous Benzhths in the LightHouse lighthouse, at the foot of the original Dungeness beacon built in the eighteenth century.
Like most characteristics here, there is an interesting history. West Cottage, dating back to 1843, was purchased by artist, sculptor and photographer Martin Turner in the nineties. When his daughter, Catherine, he inherited him, she started a careful renovation. There are beautiful touches throughout the house, from the reclaimed floor panels to copper taps and amazing Spanish floor tiles in the kitchen and bathroom. We cook a meal and warm to the evening with a wood burning stove.
The next day, we fill the mumber sand. Less than 20 minutes along the coast can be a different country, like leaving Arizona to Hamptons. Here the coast is softened, the sea is more prevalent, the waves cross and the Tob moves to the swirls of the creamy dunes, which are overlooked by the beautiful tablets.
Near -placed is Harry’s, a restaurant that opened a few months ago and is part of GallivantBoutique Hotel a few yards from the beach.
A beautiful dining room looks to the style of preservation with chairs and white walls and lined with old swimwear in a small courtyard. The lunch menu feels a good value at a price of 29 pounds sterling for two sessions, but we did an appetite after walking on the beach and we chose three courses at a price of 35 pounds.
With the presence of the previous chef in Bibundum MatThew Harris as a major chef here, we cannot resist Maldon shellfish, a suitable racist with zang of the sauce (vinegar, chopped leeks and pepper). Hake toyay – which was hunting from Rye Bay are the ideal chips on anise of fennel and marinated red cabbage.
There is also an impressive collection of English wine in the menu including the brilliant Sussex White East of Oxney Organic Estate. The most prominent participation in the Armagnac Brune Crème Brûlée and Vanilla Ice-Cream school that should be, in its silver coupe with chocolate sauce to erect.
Before we leave, we walk in the rye and the perfect mermaid street for pictures, which is a sharp slope of the cobbled corridors and half -homes. It is undoubtedly beautiful, but for me he does not completely pass the maritted test. Give me ghost and dark ruins of density on any day.
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