A day at the seaside!

@Thewhazzupdude I hope you didn't show any French person 😏

@BlobbyMcBlobface I think there are a few official sites but rough camping isn't encouraged.

@SchoolBelle We alternated because sometimes it's not possible to reach a site before dark. We pitched late and left early, no trace of us being there but some people spoil it for others.

@BlobbyMcBlobface Very true. People should be able to enjoy these places but the irony is, the more people who enjoy them, the harder it is for anyone to enjoy them.

@fun4us2b It is spectacular, even when the wins is remving two layers of skin.

@Degbeme England's southern coastline has a lot of chalkland. The Seven Sisters are in East Sussex.

Beachy Head is a famous (notorious?) suicide spot. The drop is more than 500 ft.

@SchoolBelle Oh damn.

@Degbeme Yep.

@Amy87 🤗 Thank you. It was indeed cool, bordering on the cold in the wind. A bracing place to spend a couple of hours.

@tobynshorty I can claim no credit for the photographs and the beauty belongs to nature.

@MtnManJohn Thank you. The beauty belongs to nature, the photographs belong to others. I am merely the messenger.

@helenS Do you like the piers?

@SchoolBelle Yes, and the atmosphere inside! It's all so unreal.

@helenS True!

@HotPizza71 No, I am based in London during the week but weekend in E Sussex. I have a cottage between Brighton and Lewes.

@SchoolBelle Well I was born in Brighton,and lived and schooled in Lewes...Chances are I've walked past you 😜

@HotPizza71 Possible - I have been there for about five years.

@Strictmichael75 Or The Ditch, as you call it!

@SchoolBelle No, La manche, a sleeve

@Strictmichael75 Ah, I was told it meant a ditch. I never otherex to check - probably because I thought it so appropriate.

@BlueGreenGrey Well, it would be different, for sure. Both better and worse.

It is possible to see a series of developments that meant neither France nor Britain would exist as nations - Scotland and northern England might well be Scandinavian. There might be a whole series of Belgiums stretching from the Pyrenees to the English midlands, not one of these states ever developing enough economic muscle to start to seriously dominate its neighbours.

Britain would not have ruled the waves and so the Spanish overseas empire may have flourished for much longer. India might still be an agglomeration of princely statelets.

It is unlikely that the North American continent would exist as it does today.

Interesting question - just too late and too tired to do it justice.

@SchoolBelle @Kwek00 he might beg to differ on the Belgiums you state here

@Thewhazzupdude He might - and is free to do so. It's all speculation.