We could try a third route, one that shelved the permanent move for now and let us find temporary accommodation. The plan was to rent somewhere that would take us away for the large city, giving us the opportunity to search at our leisure for a new place. We both agreed that the idea could have some mileage, so we concentrated our efforts within the section over the page called Property to let West Sussex. it covered a large and substantial area, much broader than I had previously imagined. But if we could find something with easy access to the main railway line, I would still be able to get to work.

We weren’t bothered by the need to find a suitable parking area, only a flat with the right amount of space. The newspaper showed that the town had a poor section on flats to rent in Sussex, which surprised me. Because the town was set close to the sea and had a rich tradition, I thought there would be an abudance of sites. What I might consider doing is checking online for possibilities, or even advertising on websites such as Gumtree.

It was a sensible idea, but I wasn’t about to abandon my dream Victorian terraced house quite so soon. You could still find a reasonbly priced house in Worthing as opposed to those in Brighton or Hove, which had raced away over the years. My search was going to continue so I made a quick note of some of the local phone number for Property Sussex. I would save these for later when we returned home, and were able to relax and think of our day.

When we arrived in the town, we headed straight for the beach and the noticed that the tide was out along way in the distance. Worthing is an unusual place at a low tide, because the sea goes out much further than the end of the pier. People often dig their fresh baits in the sand and walk the full distance from one side of the pier to the other. i have memories of a trip here with my father years ago on a similar low tide day, and remember him laughing at something. He pointed to a fisherman on the pier, who had dozed off and not noticed that the tide had long ago gone out. There was no water to be seen anywhere, and his float was resting on a small pile of sand!

With our newly purchased copy of the Worthing Echo, we began to look for any local housing Worthing estate agents. One thing that caught my eye was the large section entitled commercial property sussex which seemed to be offering plenty of properties. Perhaps I was seeing the direct results of failing businesses and repossessed business premises that has re-entered the market place.

I was keen on buying an old Victorian town house that could do my DIY, but my wife was not so interested in the idea. She would have been content in a new house outside of the town, and had been concentrating on another area of the paper. Her eye had focused on the adjacent advertisement entitled new homes in West Sussex, which had a wider reach than the town centre.