Sussex Wine Region

The best-designed visitor experience in Sussex, with a shiny new visitor’s centre, Bolney offers basic tastings and gourmet tours including a lunch.

Close to the pocket-sized village of Ditchling and many South Downs walking trails, this modern, family-run winery lays on tastings, food pairings and walks around the vines.

This region’s forerunner in biodynamic wines, Sedlescombe has a beautiful grand-design of a tasting room set among the vines, plus tastings and a shop.

Leaving from Brighton, this vintage double-decker bus takes you on a full day jolly to visit two wineries (Court Garden and Albourne Estate) for tours and tastings.

An iconic seaside resort, Brighton oozes a unique mix of bohemian style and beachy chic, all wrapped up in an irrepressible sense of fun.

Brighton’s most distinctive landmark – a domed Regency pleasure palace that looks straight out of Delhi, restored to its original splendour.

An icon of British seaside history, Brighton’s Victorian pier offers the white-knuckle fairground rides, old-fashioned arcade games and fish and chips. The quintessential beach experience from a by-gone era.

A temple to nostalgic childhood moments, this quaint museum has toy trains and cars, stuffed toys and retrospectives of brands such as Lego. 

If you want to hang with the locals, this criss-cross of streets leading down from the station has vegan eateries, vintage shops and a classic Brighton-boho vibe. The shopping here is better than in the more famous ‘Lanes’.

Set in Brighton’s Royal Pavilion complex, this eclectic collection is a hotchpotch of contemporary paintings, textiles, puppets, masks and eccentric furniture.

The tangle of narrow pedestrian lanes unfolding south of North Street is Brighton’s historic heart; old fisherman’s cottages now chock full of independent boutiques, jewellers, cafés and restaurants.