Weekly Photo Challenge: Weight(less)

Birds wafting around in the wind currents. Beachy Head, East Sussex.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Weight(less)

~ Spotted Cow

Looking out into the new year

Looking out yonder while the new year is yet fresh, as are our resolutions.

Bird on chalk cliff edge, Beachy Head, East Sussex.

~ Spotted Cow

Belle Tout lighthouse

If you’ve ever wanted to stay in a lighthouse, the Belle Tout Lighthouse at Beachy Head is only an hour & a half train ride to Eastbourne from London. The lighthouse was decommissioned in 1902 because it wasn’t visible on foggy nights and it now runs as a b&b. In fact, it was moved back from the cliff edge in 1999 and the rails are in place if it has to be moved further back one more time.

There are spectacular 360° views from the communal top floor. Out to the east, is the working Beachy Head lighthouse down at sea level. And over to the west are the Seven Sisters cliffs – we walked 4 of the 7 before the ups & downs got the better of us, plus we had to walk back !

It was an amazing pre-Christmas weekend and we felt very special staying in the lighthouse. Didn’t everyone want to live in a lighthouse when they were children?

~ Spotted Cow