Vintage fun Aernoon Tea at the Hydro Hotel Commanding a fine posi-on on Eastbourne seafront offering an elevated view of the town’s beaches and ocean and boas-ng award-winning gardens, the Hydro Hotel offers the perfect venue for tradi-onal aernoon tea. Enjoy scones with jam and cream and tea with fine bone china in its Conservatory Lounge overlooking the beau-ful garden where guests might play croquet. www.hydrohotel.com Aernoon Tea at The Grand Hotel England’s only 5-star seaside hotel commands a superior posi-on on Eastbourne seafront and the magnificent white building epitomises tradi-onal Bri-sh elegance and is the perfect place for indulging in tradi-onal aernoon tea. Choose to enjoy it in the Great Hall with strings playing gently in the background and on the last Sunday of the month (excluding June, July and December), enjoy the Grand Aernoon Tea with Shelley Van Leon and the Palm Court Strings Orchestra. Or relax in the elegant lounge or on the sun terrace during summer. Champagne high teas and special chldren’s high tea menus also available. www.grandeastbourne.com Baking Classes at The Really Scrump"ous Cake Company, Enterprise Centre Housed in Eastbourne’s Victorian shopping precinct with a sunny glass roof, Really Scrump-ous Cake Company sells and bakes cupcakes to die for on the premises, as well as offer cupcake baking classes and cupcake decora-ng par-es to have a go yourself! Classes run on a Monday and/or Wednesday evening and a min. 4 people are required to run the class. You each make from scratch 12 cupcakes – bake and decorate them to take home! All ingredients provided along with tea/coffee. Or opt for the Giant Cupcake Class and you will bake a giant cupcake to take home with you to decorate yourself at home, as well as decorate a giant cupcake that has been baked for you, which you will take home. www.thereallyscrump-ouscakeco.com Sewing Classes at The Owl and the Sewing Cat, Grand Hotel Buildings shopping parade Recently opened hot on the heels of the latest trend of ‘make, do and mend’ and the revival of the sewing machine, The Owl and the Sewing Cat is a beau-ful shop packed full of contemporary easy sew fabrics and haberdashery equipment and materials. They are also on a mission to get as many people as possible sewing, and run sewing lessons for those wan-ng to learn with simple kits also available. Open Sewing Workshops available for beginners & improvers - £15 per session – come along and learn to use a sewing machine and make an easy project such as cushions, bags, bun-ng, aprons or seasonal projects. Experts will be on hand to give you ideas and advice. Or improvers can come along each week and learn to make a new project picking up new skills and various techniques each week, such as piping, zips, bu.onholes, appliqué etc. Demonstra-ons for beginners are also available for free www.owlandsewingcat.com www.visiteastbourne.com Eastbourne Tea Dances at The Winter Garden Put on your dancing shoes and spend an aernoon tripping the light fantas-c at a Winter Garden Tea Dance. With live musical accompaniment, this is an aernoon to be enjoyed by all – whatever your dancing ability. www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk Tradi"onal Cream Tea at Dickens Tea Co#age, South Street Eastbourne’s best kept secret, built in 1719, has been a tea room for over sixty years. Dickens visited when it was a boarding house. Olde world décor with delicious cream tea lunches and tradi-onal bone china Enjoy a Corporal Croissant at The Outpost Enjoy a Colonel Coffee in a quirky moustache mug at this vintage style café at the historic Redoubt Fortress. With free entry to the fortress parade ground, pop into the café during a seafront stroll, and enjoy tea and cake surrounded by vintage furniture, paintings and photography. The Outpost is the perfect venue during one of the fortresses many re-enactment events. www.eastbournemuseums.co.uk Rock n Roll Concert at Eastbourne Bandstand Enjoy a rock n roll tribute concert at Eastbourne’s iconic 1930s Bandstand every Saturday night in July and August. The alfresco concerts on Eastbourne seafront promise tribute nights to a variety of rock n roll favourites, including Elvis, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash and Chuck Berry. www.eastbournebandstand.co.uk www.visiteastbourne.com
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