UK Tourist & Leisure Attractions

This is the Olde Moat House in Ivychurch, near Rye, our B&B guest house accommodation for the weekend.  It proved to be an excellent place and very reasonably priced too.  Check out their website on our UK tourist links page.

So here's Mike, all ready for our trek round Rye.  We always seem to get great weather when away, this break proved no different with patchy warm sunshine all weekend.  The windmill in the background is now a guest house.
 

Ah, our first stop was this lovely coffee shop we found tucked away.  We sat in the warm autumn sunshine supping our coffee and planning our day in Rye.
 

Hmmm, so Mike, we'll go along there, up here, through that squiggly bit, then in there and out, er, where are we?  Lucky we have the Sat Nav with us, eh!

Rye is an old gated historic town, here's Mike walking through Landgate.
 

Another picture in the bag at the Ypres Tower in Rye.  There's a museum here and nearby the picturesque Church Square with its old church, buildings and cobbled street, which formed the original east Sussex town of Rye.

In the grounds of Ypres Tower is this Gun Garden.  Here's Mike with a big weapon in his hand, just need to take this red thing off the end and.... whoops!  Wot a bang!

Here in Mermaid Street is 'The Mermaid Inn', a historic Rye pub dating back to, oh, really olden times.  It was recently featured on the 'Most Haunted' TV series about ghosts.
 

We enjoyed a pint at 'The Mermaid Inn' in Rye, served by a bar tender as miserable as a miserable thing.  Not friendly service at all, and expensive!  We saw sandwiches on the menu at £6!

We originally considered staying at the Mermaid when planning our break, but at £220 per couple per night it was a bit beyond our pockets.  'The Mermaid Inn' website is on our links page.
 

Strand Quay is the main tourist area.  At Rye Heritage Centre we enjoyed 'The Story of Rye', an audio visual show set to a town model as it was 700 years ago.  A historical audio walking town tour could also be obtained here.
 

Even on a weekend break we always get a walk in.  Here's Belinda walking towards Rye's Camber Castle across land that 1000 years ago was under the sea.  The good thing is it's all flat for the 1½ mile walk from Rye town.

Time to get another picture in the bag as we approach Camber Castle.  We have links to Rye and other local Sussex and Kent websites on our tourist links page.

The notice at Camber Castle gave us the history, but it's currently closed to visitors.  There used to be 47 soldiers and their weapons based at the place, steady on there Belinda!  See our Rye page 2 for another ancient monument!