Luxuriant Meandering
EXCEAT TO POLEGATE VIA CUCKMERE HAVEN, FRISTON FOREST, JEVINGTON AND LOWER WILLINGDON There was an almost immediate giving way to indulgence on this journey. From the outset, I was determined to turn my back on the sea but having found myself so close to the mouth of the lovely Cuckmere, it was irrational not to follow the river down to the waves. It followed then that there was not an inconsiderable swaying of the way from the water, through the woods, only for it to throw itself back south to dissect the Seven Sisters and to be in sight of the twinkling ocean, once again. You will know then that this route is not an efficient or practical one but 'luxury' might describe such a walk of pure pleasure. I am gratified to find the etymology is not one originally of 'light' or richness but has its roots in the Latin for lustfulness and Greek in twisting, bending. A definition of excessive and unrestrained plantlike growth. My desire was to get to the water and dive for cove...
