“Half memoir, half travel, A Yank Back to England...is an absolutely wonderful book, not only about going home again but also about love and family and tradition and the passage of the years.”
—Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic (Washington
Post)
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Saturday, June 6, 2009

Deal us in!

In the annals of literature, Deal has not been viewed too kindly. A Regency travel book described the town as “a villainous place filled with filthy looking people.” A century or so before, the diarist Samuel Pepys called Deal “pitiful.” Well. We enjoyed our walk in a delightful part of the old town Pepys must have missed. Especially when the sun quite unexpectedly took a shine to us.
Some of the smaller streets and alleys were cobbled and the houses at least two hundred years old. With Kate in her stroller, we spent a pleasant hour zigzagging from the high street hubbub down to those quieter, more picturesque alleys and turnings, before finding ourselves back on the front looking out at the emerald-gray sea.

6 comments:

Maggie said...

it sounds like a charming place! Pictures- we need pictures!

smitten by britain said...

I second Maggie's request. What a tease!

beach philippines said...

Can i be third in motion for maggie? XD just like i did in the beaches in phils check it.

The Prodigal Tourist said...

What ever happened to imagination? Actually, we don't seem to have photos of Deal--we were doing a lot of quick escapes from the house (for reasons that will be apparent to anyone reading the book!)and guess we didn't stop to grab the camera...

parTea lady said...

Sounds like a nice place to visit. Some of the pictures I viewed online were quite pretty with pastel colored houses lined up along the beach.

Maybe I'll visit again some day and see more than just London and Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Softball Whisperer said...

That sounds like a really nice place. Hope I can go some day!