The unprepared trip to The Seven Sisters

Our ambition with this one-day trip to The Seven Sisters Country Park was to extend our knowledge of Great Britain’s most extraordinary nature and environment – something that, due to inconveniences dealing with our bus reservation, did not quite go as we had planned... We were forced to reorganize our expedition by rescheduling it from Wednesday to Monday, which made the day quite more spontaneous than what was intended.

While traveling to the Country Park, our bus unfortunately broke down, forcing us to wait (FOR HOURS AND HOURS AND WEEKS AND MONTHS!) until another vehicle came to our rescue. Some of us cried, some of us died. Yet finally, we reached our destination.

The Seven Sisters Country Park is located in the east of Sussex, more exactly in Eastbourne, where beautiful surroundings dominate the exterior of the place. Moreover, being the recording sight of many famous movies has made the area well known amongst people of all nationalities. You might have seen, or heard about, the movie Atonement, of which the last scenes took place here. Actually, during our visit, some of us defied the gale-force winds and managed to catch a glimpse of the protagonist’s house, while the rest of us took shelter in a local tearoom.

Even though the heavy downpour prevented us from enjoying the full extent of the park, we could still imagine the beauty of the place on a sunny, summer day and we understand why The Seven Sisters is so popular amongst tourists. Most people travel here to explore the beautiful cliffs located here and the country park itself actually contains 280 hectares of chalk cliffs. The cliffs are in fact what have given this place its name!

At our stay, we learned that there are two types of maritime cliffs in East Sussex - the chalk cliffs of which the ones in Eastbourne are an example, and the softer sandstone cliffs that can be found eastwards. Altogether, there are approximately 45km of cliffs in East Sussex and the cliffs are actually receding at about 35cm each year due to heavy rain or rough storms.

Even though the journey to The Seven Sisters Country Park did not in any way go as planned, we still had a pleasant time - and we will certainly never forget the feeling of soaking wet clothes and shoes!

Seven Sisters

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/Elina Trygg, Louise Ahnvik, Simon Andersson