Urbane Rurality in England, Part One: A Day in the Historic Town of Lewes — huffingtonpost.com

If you are attending a performance at Glyndebourne - the quintessential country-house opera festival and among the most alluring - it is too easy to think of the nearby East Sussex town of Lewes as little more than a railway junction where you catch the jitney or a taxi to the opera house. That was a mistake that Jackie and I made when we first visited the festival more than thirty years ago during a trip to London: we scurried there and back without paying attention to the town.

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