April 2016
Not strictly a proper train journey as we drove to Essex to visit some childhood haunts and attend our last ever Bellowhead gig, but we did take the chance to ride the Southend pier railway while we were there. Southend pier is the longest pleasure pier in the world at a mile and a third, stretching out into the Thames estuary and its trains trundle back and forth every 15 minutes to the café and lifeboat station at the end.
Then there was the added bonus of the "Cliff Lift", a short funicular from the seafront to the top of the cliff gardens. In fact the only downside to the whole day was the absence of the tutti fruiti ice cream I was looking forward to.
We're off on our travels again next week, back to Amsterdam by Eurostar and Thalys, so more soon.
