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Since moving to Brighton and Hove, I never get tired of walking along the seafront.
Along Hove end, there are many of these beach huts, and I just love the vividness of the colours on the doors.
Raul Castro has offered to release some Cuban political prisoners in exchange for the release of Cuban agents held in US jails. The Cuban agents have been convicted of spying and plotting assassinations in the US. This offer has been directed at President elect Obama.
Clearly this is not a decent offer. The people held in the Cuban jails are just brave honorable people campaigning for ordinary freedoms that are standard in decent societies. The writers, journalists and democrats incarcerated in Cuban jails absolutely deserve to be free. The fact that they are in jail is just totally obscene. They utterly completely deserve to be free already...........they have committed no crime!
They deserve freedom so much that maybe Obama should take up the sordid offer. Even though It really is sordid to equate those who use the freedoms available in the US to plot the murder of others ...... with the actions of people campaigning for open democracy and the right to free speech. There can be no moral equivalence.
I have sometimes been amazed and impressed that Israel will release hundreds of prisoners to get back even the body of one Israeli solider. In my view making concessions to drag your enemy do what decency demands with no price makes the actions of your enemy look even more obscene. Maybe Obama should act in the same way. The freedom of even a single democrat or a single writer is worth the cost of releasing these disgusting murder plotters.
The newly elected Obama should and will tower above the sordid Castro brothers and their 50 years of clutching to power through their vile police state. In my view Obama should take this obscene offer just to win the freedom of people who should so clearly be free already and have never even been arrested in the first place......... and what's more....... Obama in my view should drop all restrictions on trade and movement. It's only the Castro's that have benefitted from Cuba's isolation it has allowed them to get on with oppressing the people of Cuba in private.
Cheers Jez XXXXX
[Who is Raul](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3396201.ece?token=null&offset=0)
[Prisoner swap proposed](http://www.reuters.com/article/globalNews/idUSTRE4BH5OL20081218?rpc=64)
I had a stroll on Worthing Pier today while I was waiting for my car to be serviced and MOT'ed. It was lovely and sunny ... kind of nice to just relax for a change!
Everyone's glued to their mobiles these days! It's like a crutch, I'm on my own, what shall I do, I know, I'll look at the Internet on my mobile.
Mind you, I expect for many folks its replaced things like newspapers as the "I'm doing nothing much but sitting/standing here so I'll read the paper"
Four large detached houses were demolished here next to Denton Gardens to make way for another set of seafront flats. Seafront houses are starting to become an endangered species in my hometown.
Seafront & Pier
Lifeboat Museum
Italian Gardens
Beachy Head
Lighthouse
Birling Gap
Tiger Inn
Bus stops on route:
Eastbourne Pier
Bandstand
Lifeboat Museum
Grand Hotel
Italian Gardens
Foot of Beachy Head
Beachy Head
Belle Tout Lighthouse
Birling Gap
Birling Manor
Tiger Inn
Warren Hill car park
St. Bedes
Grand Hotel
Bandstand
Eastbourne Pier
Picture: 1999 Dennis Trident East Lancs Lolyne reg SFZ 131 or SFZ 404
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2025:
Seaford & District doesn't operate this tour
Seaford & District no longer owns SFZ 131 and SFZ 404
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A postcard published by John Hinde Ltd., 6 Rupert Street, London W1. The card was printed in the Irish Republic.
The card was posted in St. Ives on the 15th. July 1966 to:
Miss S. Green,
4 Bayswater Terrace,
Sandycove,
Dunloughaire,
Dublin,
Eire.
The message on the back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Sarah,
Hope this finds you OK.
It was nice seeing you
on your short visit.
We are having a very
nice holiday - very static.
No time to waste, here
wishing you all the best,
Love from us all,
Mrs. B".
Penzance
Penzance is a town and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England. It is the westernmost major town in Cornwall, and is about 64 miles (103 km) west-southwest of Plymouth, and 255 miles (410 km) west-southwest of London.
Situated in the shelter of Mount's Bay, the town faces south-east onto the English Channel. It is bordered to the west by the fishing port of Newlyn. Granted various royal charters from 1512 onwards and incorporated on the 9th. May 1614, Penzance has a population of 21,200 (2011 census).
Penzance's Chapel Street has a number of interesting features, including the Egyptian House, and The Admiral Benbow public house (home to a real life 19th.-century smuggling gang, and allegedly the inspiration for Treasure Island's "Admiral Benbow Inn").
Chapel Street also features the Union Hotel (including a Georgian theatre which is no longer in use), and Branwell House, where the mother and aunt of the famous Brontë sisters once lived.
Regency and Georgian terraces and houses are common in some parts of the town. The nearby sub-tropical Morrab Gardens has a large collection of tender trees and shrubs, many of which cannot be grown outdoors anywhere else in the UK.
Also of interest is the seafront with its promenade and the open-air seawater Jubilee Pool (one of the oldest surviving Art Deco swimming baths in the country).
Penzance is the base of the pirates in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance. At the time the libretto was written, 1879, Penzance had become popular as a peaceful resort town, so the idea of it being overrun by pirates was amusing to contemporaries.
There are a variety of plant types producing some colourful flowers which brighten up the pedestrian promenades of Coasta Adeje in Tenerie including this bright orange variety.
If anyone knows the name of this flower please let me know.
Standing in the park you can see the Hythe Ferry (For Southampton) and Pier. Weston is shown on the horizon.
Seafront probably on the South Coast somewhere: photo taken in 1929 by my grandfather.
Edit: identified as Beer in Devon: thanks to cliffranger