The Annual Pilgrimage
(Hehe – I wrote this a year ago but wasn’t able to get the photos off the old camera for one reason or another – lucky for you went went again tonight but the battery on my camera went flat….)
(…July 2006…)
pao likes to get in touch with his roots so at least once a year we get in the car and go down to Deal to get fish and chips from Scarsden’s Fish and Chip Shop. We then sit on the beach (or if it is cold and windy huddled on the pier) and eat our fish and chips being dive-bombed by seagulls. (July 2007…Tonight we ate in the restaurant for the first time ever!)
Saturday evening due to the excessive heat in the house after we’d arrived back from Whitstable and Tyler Hill, pao decided he wanted fish and chips from Scarsden’s (Middle Street Fish and Chip Shop in Deal). So off we went. It was bliss being by the sea as temperatures were several degrees cooler and there was a breeze. Blessed relief.
(and at this point here we arrive back in 2007!)
It has been quite a pleasant day – the sun hasn’t been too hot and pao is much happier because the doctor said the infection is gone and prescribed him some large pink ibuprofen for the pain and a big lot of nasal snortiness to deal with the mucus.
Here are a few pictures I took before the battery died.
It was a beautiful evening.
Deal Pier.
Man and fish statue.
This is the closest I’ve been to a seagull since we left Canterbury!
Alicia sent the most amazing package which arrived on Saturday – when I’ve charged my camera I will show you photos 
I might even find the memory card for the old camera now I’ve got a memory card reader -(thank you, pao!) and show you the photos I took last year in Deal – I remember it really well because I was knitting Rebecca’s felted bag and it was so so hot that it was hard work to knit with the Lamb’s Pride in that weather and I got lots done in Deal.
July 31st, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Lovely, lovely photos! Hmm, it’s been quite a while since I’ve been to the ocean…
July 31st, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Would you believe I spotted a couple of sea gulls not far from my house the other day? Think about that. I live in the middle of the country. I can’t even claim to be near a large lake. They like the river, I guess, which mean you may see some your first night here.
July 31st, 2007 at 4:20 pm
That is a really interesting statue! I love the pictures of the sea – have never been there. The largest body of water I’ve seen in person is Lake Superior, USA.
July 31st, 2007 at 4:21 pm
I’m glad Pao is getting better! Those beach photos are beautiful. Seagulls are a scourge! We used to get crab and SF sourdough bread and eat on the beach until the gulls drove us off.
August 1st, 2007 at 6:49 am
Glad to hear that Pao is on the mend.
The sky in those pictures is lovely. Did you guys lay back and stare up at the clouds?
August 2nd, 2007 at 1:31 am
Why are there quite so many seagulls in Canterbury? It is most disturbing.
August 5th, 2007 at 2:32 am
Way too cool seeing where my bag was created!
I hope pao is all better by now.
August 7th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Beautiful!! I bet the air is better for poor Pao there, too… I do hope he is all better by the time you board your plane!
August 16th, 2007 at 11:08 am
What beautiful sea-side shots. And there’s nothing better than eating fish and chips outside …. as long as the sea-gulls let you, that is!
(Glad to have found you at last; Blogger won’t like me to you and I’ve only just thought to google you!)
August 16th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Sorry – that was meant to be “link” me to you! What, no preview?!