Remember the pretty promenade in Little Britain along which Emily Howard skipped trilling that she was in fact a lady? That was Eastbourne, that was. Book an Eastbourne campsite to be but a mere skip from this scenic seafront stacked with sights and a Victorian pier with Victorian tea rooms alongside first-class views of the Channel. Ladies and gents will also find regular concerts trumpeting on the bandstand, two theme parks, a Napoleonic fort and the biggest military museum in the south-east, land train, clifftop garden with golf course, and a leisure centre with sauna and steam room … Phew. *flutters fan*
If you too are on Eastbourne’s seafront in heels/with parasol a la Emily, take the open-top bus from here or a boat from the pier to Eastbourne’s other top spot, the chalk cliff of beautiful Beachy Head, stretching along the Sussex coast to its neighbouring Seven Sisters. Camping in Eastbourne opens up the South Downs too: the South Downs National Park starts at Beachy Head and can be seen from most of the town while round and about at Eastbourne’s parks, five theatres, Towner gallery and the magnif How We Lived Then museum, another highly recommended Eastbourne top spot.
