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Travel to Eastbourne

I’m now vpn + vnc to lamar, my thinkpad t43, because I leave the photos in it. And I don’t get a Chinese input method on the laptop from B&B. However, I still failed to call scim out. Maybe it’s caused by the bad vnc configuration.

It’s the bank holiday this Monday. So I got a three day break before I leave. I spend the Saturday on Oxford Circus shopping and the Hyde Park roaming. It’s really nice in Hyde Park and got a drum show there. I still remembered that the Speakers’ Corner in the Hyde Park but didn’t find it because no guide.

On Sunday, I decided to go to somewhere out of London. And Eastbourne looks like a nice place to go to. It’s a sea-side city with railway, cliff and about 6km beach. The same day return ticket cost me £23. But it’s much cheaper if I did a advance booking. (Maybe 2~3 day in advance, £7.5)

Tickets to Eastbourne and Return

Although weather report said it would rain in Eastbourne on Monday. I still want to try my best for the sea-side sunrise. After checking the sunrise calendar (of course I can calculate by myself but not accurate enough), I found that the sunrise is at 6:10 when the first train arrive at 6:00. Great challenge to me.

The first problem is I didn’t have a map. The only map I got is a tube map up to then. And I didn’t know how to setup the net printer in the office. So I turned to the Android application. I need a offline map app because I had no Internet access on my mobile. Fortunately, I found one, the AndNav2.

Everything ready.

With the Redbull to go, I started this journey at 2:30 am. N73 bus to the Victoria station, then got on the train at 4 o’clock. The coaches looks like CRH’s.

Fast view inside the coach

I must change the train at Brighton because Eastbourne is a small village, a few train to London, especially in the so early morning. The arriving was 2 minutes later than the schedule. So I just got 8 minutes to run to the beach. And I got it. It’s really nice as far as I can see. Then many photos.

Sunrise (1)

Sunrise (2)

A photographer is working on the runrise

Sunrise (3)

Sunrise (4)

I’m absolutely the lucky guy, because the cloud is almost reached the skyline. The sun is hidden about 10 minutes after the sunrise. Then I roamed on the long beach, played with birds, collected the beautiful stone…

Sunrise is my first objection, and I just achieved it. The second one is the Beachy Head, the sharp cliff close to Eastbourne. It’s still very beautiful on the way to that hill.