Property News · December 2, 2016

Let’s move to Rye, East Sussex: ‘You’d think its prettiness would be its undoing’


Even the annual deluge of summer tourists fails to dent its astonishing characterWhat’s going for it? I have deeply etched childhood memories of Rye. We came here often, Mum and Dad perhaps harbouring fantasies of moving to its medieval streets when we won the pools. Now I come here often, accompanied by much the same vain hopes. In the intervening four decades, little has altered, bar the arrival of boutique hotels, boutique cinemas and better coffee. Rye, after all, has been around the block and seen it all before, even unruly, egocentric demagogues striding across the globe. (This was once a command centre against Napoleon’s potential invasion.) You’d think Rye’s prettiness would be its undoing. But no. Even the annual deluge of summer tourists fails to dent its astonishing character. This is a town, though, best approached in winter, hunkered down, hatches battened against the maritime gusts, with the sun low over Camber Sands and a flaming log or two in the fireplace at the George.The case against Read the Mapp & Lucia novels. Occasional tweeness. A few too many gift shops. Preserved, but when a place looks this good… Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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