This week I took my parents for a mini-break to West Sussex, really not that far away from their home, for a little holiday in the countryside.
It was lovely to see different skies and wide vistas that you don’t really get in the suburbs. The first few days were cloudy with bursts of sunshine, and then it rained all day when we left.
We stayed in a converted barn airbnb with a big lawn and wide meadows that you could walk through. It was delightful! I saw a field mouse, lots of little bats in the dusk, flocks of geese that flew overhead and plenty of other birds that I didn’t recognise.
We drove along winding roads, past tall hedgerows and through green summery woods. We all loved these old English road signs.
We visited the little village of Bosham Quay that is on an estuary, and it happened to be a high tide day! The road was totally flooded and we walked all the way round to avoid getting our feet wet.
I loved collecting blackberries from the garden where we stayed and we enjoyed them for breakfast.
English country roads are truly delightful in the summer, creating tunnels of leaves and foliage…
