The City That Fell Off a Cliff

I highly recommend this ride, it is so much fun. Just make sure you book the transport back and don't hope to get a train or public transport, just too many people!

> it's a magical ride that anyone can do.

It's 180km, so you do need to be reasonably fit. I was on it each year from 2008-2014. Options on the way back are (were?) book a seat on a bus, ride to Saxmundham and get the train from there, ride to Ipswich and get the train from there, or (if you're really fit), ride home. There are a few things to see when you get there, the ruins of Greyfriars Priory, a leper hospital, and a museum.

I'm rehabilitating a piece of severely compacted alluvial sand/silt. On a dry day I damaged a pick trying to take soil samples. It was like concrete. I could see how someone would think it was stable enough to build upon.

But now it's wet much of the year, and soft and squishy. I can dig holes with a trowel, and a delivery truck left ruts trying to drop off materials. Not so stable after all.

It's pronounced like Dunich (ignore the w).

A Danish one, too, teetering on the brink. If you walk down the stairs to the right of the church, down on the beach you can make out a thin, greyish horizontal line in the white chalk of the cliffs, gunsmoke from the big thing which disturbed dinosaur tranquility. This is one of the places the Alvarez'es went - around 1980 - to collect their evidence.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:H%C3%B8jerup_Gam...

> Before the adoption of "North Sea", the names used in English were "German Sea" or "German Ocean", referred to as the Latin names "Mare Germanicum" and "Oceanus Germanicus", and these persisted in use until the First World War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea#cite_ref-106

More like 700 years from the sounds of things.

> This city was once the same physical size as the City of London with a population, in its late-thirteenth-century heyday, of around ten thousand, before it was savagely diminished by two calamitous sea-storms in 1288 and 1328 initiating a process of coastal erosion that would plunge much of the city off the cliff in the succeeding, sorrowful centuries.

> There are many ways to preserve and even extend shoreline.

None seem to be effective here: https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/tiny-yorkshir... (lots of other examples on the English East Coast).

You may be able to slow things, but in the end, the sea is going to win.