@SchoolBelle Ah, I am in the south of Spain now and forget the seasons in Sussex.

@kwood1 😲 Wimp!

@SchoolBelle I do recall the sun shining in October though!

@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.

@SchoolBelle @Degbeme Well Degers, that is where you will find me on a good day. Not jumping but enjoying the breeze.

@Uncfred Letting the breeze blow through your blonde locks?

@Degbeme Locked and far away...

@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.

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

@helenS True!

@helenS It was so sad 15 years ago, the hastings peer got burned down. No more arcades.

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

@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.

@Degbeme Ithink it is an old photo, or I got the wrong lighthouse in my dotage. they did move one lighthouse near there.

@Degbeme I think it's there to warn mariners about rocks and shallows. Or am I being a bit too literal?

@Uncfred @Degbeme The BelleTout lighthouse was moved about 50ft away from the cliff edge when it was threatened by erosion.

This is the lighthouse in @HotPizza71's profile pic.

@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.