Visit Arundel for its fantasy, 1,000-year-old, Norman Arundel Castle, still home to the Duke of Norfolk, and its amazing 19th century Gothic Cathedral -- the view of both, from the distance, is truly like something out of a story book.
Later, stay in a castle in Amberley, a tiny, mostly 16th century hamlet with picturesque thatched cottages -- look for a bird or a squirrel worked into the thatch near the chimney, a local tradition. Amberley Working Museum, in an abandoned chalk quarry, relates the local history of the industrial revolution.
Arundel has several good restaurants or try the wonderfully eccentric Black Horse Pub in Amberley, one of the area's best traditional village pubs.
