Advantages: beautiful, wild, ancient, great views Disadvantages: painful in bad weather
The White Cliffs of Dover are one of those archetypal, iconic images of Britain: and rightly so, as Dover has been a place of comings and goings for time immemorial (Romans contemplated landing here, but decided against it; Lancelot travelled form here onto his exile, and millions of hopeful immigrants and thirsty day-shoppers leave and arrive via Dover every day). I have to confess to having a bit of a thing for cliffs. I grew up on a coast, but ... ...majority is sandy beach, and the cliffs - as few and far between as they are - are earth cliffs. So a proper rocky shore has always held a fascination for me: it started with the Sussex coast, Beachy Head and Seven Sisters when we lived in Brighton, and during over two years in Dover I fell in love with the White Cliffs. The name refers to the whole expanse of the white chalk studded with black flint that stretches on both sides of Dover. Technically, ...
magdadh 30.05.2009
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