Blogs from Kent, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 2

Flight from Berlin 7.00am all on time 2hr flight to London arriving at 8.00am, then to car hire, got our KIA sportage and onto Faversham. Our houseowner where we rented for 4 days was OK with us coming early morning so we arrived around 10.45 and then had the washing machine whirring for the next few hours, did some supermarketing for drinks and snacks, then ironed everything. Faversham is quite unique not only as an ancient market town but as an English area with their huge hop growing fields and those gorgeous oast houses that they used to dry the hops. Even our care hire man commented on how gorgeous he thought Kent was with their oast houses. El and Dean asked us around for a wine and cheese night at their home Thursday night, Luke ... read more

A town and major ferry port in Kent in southeast England, Dover faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel, just 21 miles from Cap Gris Nez. Immortalized in books, movies, and songs (remember Vera Lynn?) over the years, the White Cliffs of Dover is the region of English coastline facing the Strait. The cliff face reaches a height of 350’ and owes its striking appearance to its composition of chalk, accented by streaks of black flint, deposited during the late Cretaceous period. The cliffs on both sides of the town stretch for 8 miles, and a section of coastline encompassing the cliffs was purchased by the National Trust in 2016. At this point, Britain is closest to continental Europe, and on a clear day (yes, they do get these ... read more

So looking forward to this trip. Our last summer motorhome holiday was 4 years ago June 2018. That was followed by a new knee op which cancelled the annual September trip, A year off while Bob got his heart sorted then 2020/2021 well Covid of course. We did have our trip to Spain via France in Feb / March but our main memories of that are Rain. Certainly not the winter sunshine break we had anticipated and doubt we would bother repeating it. Such a long way to go to find bad weather and we decided when we got back that we far prefer France to Spain, having spent one week of the trip travelling through France to get to Spain and back. France is easier, more familair, I speak the language so any future winter ... read more

Dear All Greetings! I thought I'd write a blog entry about a lovely day trip I did from London. I had not long arrived home after an amazing trip to New England USA, when my travel feet continued to itch and I was ready to do a bit more exploring again. This time I planned a little trip I'd been thinking about for a while now, ever since I watched the film "Pocahontas" when it came out in the 1990s really, but my plans developed more recently to include some really quite lovely places nearby. It was a Saturday trip on a Bank Holiday weekend to take in the lovely town of Gravesend on the southern bank of the River Thames in Kent, and then a short ferry ride just across the River Thames onto its ... read more

Hiking from Canterbury to Dover This year we decided to take the first week of our vacation to go on a hike. The trail we chose is an ancient pilgrim route called Via Francigena. The route goes from Canterbury in England to Rome in Italy. We have no intension of walking all of it. We don't have the time. Walking all of it would take maybe three months. But also, it wouldn't be fun. We enjoy hiking but one week is quite enough for us. More than that and it would turn into a project and that is not what we are after. We began the hike in Canterbury. Before we went there we only knew of two things about that city: 1 it has a cathedral 2 there is a book named the Canterbury Tales ... read more