Balcombe viaduct ....
8th
January 2018 (Monday)
.... 11.00 Janice, Michael and I went to the Balcombe
viaduct yesterday; it’s an impressive
structure, and there is a legitimate
‘walk’ round the viaduct, with a stop at a
garden centre half way round. However, with all the rain we’ve lately the
walk had been turned into a sea of
slippery mud. Normally I would ‘go
for it’, the need to get the photographs overriding all else, but after
venturing about 50 metres over the path Michael and I both decided that it was too
slippery for me; I’d most likely have
ended up on my ‘butt’. Michael
persevered and got the photos that I wanted;
I got some general shots. It is
most definitely a ‘wellie boots’ walk in the conditions that prevail: although it was a bonnie day yesterday, it
will take a series of bonnie drying days, to make the walk across the field
passable with normal footwear. It’s a
beautiful structure, 1450 feet long, built with 11,000,000 bricks shipped
across from Holland, and transported up the River Ouse, to the site, by barge
from Newhaven and Lewes. It was opened in 1841, and is said to be .... “the most elegant viaduct in the UK”.
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| Balcombe viaduct ... photo by Michael. |
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| Balcolme viaduct. |
21.00 Today has been a day of ‘R & R’; my cough made a partial comeback yesterday,
and my day was spent staying in, and warm, in an effort to shake it off... once
and for all. Apparently this is the
norm for the cold that’s doing the rounds this year. It is most likely the reason that I went to
bed last night without updating the Hutte ..... I’m really sorry about
that. Anyway I have
felt brighter today (I managed to clean the mud off two pair of shoes!),
and the weather for tomorrow in the South East is forecast to be much the same
as today’s.... but warmer. I’ll go ‘downtown’
in the morning and have a browse around.
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| The path across the field; and Michael coming back from the viaduct. |
