Wanderings » Dungeness http://rebrennan.com/wanderings views along the way Thu, 05 Feb 2015 17:41:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Camber Sands and Dungeness http://rebrennan.com/wanderings/camber-sands-and-dungeness/ http://rebrennan.com/wanderings/camber-sands-and-dungeness/#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:27:02 +0000 http://rebrennan.com/wanderings/?p=265 Camber Sands was a weird, disconnected place; more so than other out of season holiday resorts I’ve visited. The beach was immense, with distant kite surfers and the merest shadow of Dungeness nuclear power station on the horizon.
view of Camber Sands beach with kite surfers
Everyone expects Dungeness to be strange, and it is. Clap board homes strung out along a road and railway line across a flat shingle landscape. Odd relics of former industry dotted about the flatness. Signs prohibiting access to the distant shore and intriguing artefacts.

house and railway line, Dungeness

Dungeness landscape

Derek Jarman’s house, Prospect Cottage, looks just as he left it in 1994 with a boat in the garden and the power station visible in the background.

Prospect Cottage, Dungeness

I did find Dungeness odd, but also strangely reminiscent of Chile.

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