belle tout Print

It was the first week of March 2017 and my boyfriend at the time insisted we visit London to see some of his college friends. I only agreed to tag along if we could spend one day adventuring to see the Seven Sister Cliffs. Neither of us were prepared for a typical overcast day hiking across long stretches of rolling sheep fields. We were cold, hungry, and with dead cell phones by early afternoon. Guiding ourselves with a poorly drawn paper map from the bus company we made it to Belle Tout lighthouse, and then beyond to the cliff just before where the Beachy Head lighthouse is situated far below. Shortly before we turned our travels back to the city center, we found ourselves caught rainstorm that rolled through the hills and darkened the sky before cracking open to reveal a setting sun that illuminated the cliffside, surrounding clouds and sea below in the most brilliant purple.