Sunny Week in East Sussex

road to Herstmonceux village

The last few days have been the warmest yet! Everyone is walking around in shorts and dresses like it's summer, not almost October. It was actually a fair bit colder when we first arrived than it is now.

pathway branching off the walk to the castle;
taken this Thurs, sunny afternoon

On Wednesday, because the weather was so nice, we got to have our Shakespeare class outside in the Shakespeare garden! That was a really nice surprise, and so was the Time Team episode we got to watch in Early Modern Britain history class. Time Team is a popular UK archaeology TV show, and this episode was about excavations of Henry VIII's palaces, including Hampton Court, which we're going to this Sunday! Some of the experts interviewed during the program had job titles that sounded like dream jobs to me: "Buildings Curator, Historic Royal Palaces" and "Research Curator, Hampton Court Palace" for example. 

path to the castle (you can see it on the far right)

along the path to the castle

On Tuesdays, I have a 4-hour break between classes, so two friends and I walked to the village of Herstmonceux, about 40 minutes each way. I had never been there before so I was excited to see what was there, even though I knew it would be small. It consists of 2 convenience stores, 4 restaurants, a hair salon, a post office, and that's basically it. And this is the nearest settlement to us- the bigger town, Hailsham, is even further away.

Here's some pictures from our walk there:

In Herstmonceux proper:

Lastly, a few uniquely British treats in the convenience store!