Holidaying at home
When we knew that, because of my course, we could only take a holiday in August, we didn't want to pay through the nose for a holiday in peak time so decided to holiday at home. It's all too easy to miss visiting what's on your own doorstep - even though geocaching has taken us to lots of parts of Kent, we do have a tendency to grab a cache and move onto the next one, without properly exploring the locality.
Today we drove to Dungeness to take a trip on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, which has some fantastic engines like this one:
We got off at Hythe, an attractive little town which is just like dozens of other attractive little British towns:
until you turn a corner an find this:
Back at Dungeness we went for a stroll where we found lots of strange buildings and objects rusting away:
there were wild cabbages as far as the eye could see:
and as we left for the evening, the seagulls were taking roost on the telephone wires:
Today we drove to Dungeness to take a trip on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, which has some fantastic engines like this one:
We got off at Hythe, an attractive little town which is just like dozens of other attractive little British towns:
until you turn a corner an find this:
Back at Dungeness we went for a stroll where we found lots of strange buildings and objects rusting away:
there were wild cabbages as far as the eye could see:
and as we left for the evening, the seagulls were taking roost on the telephone wires:
3 Comments:
Ooh, my first ever spam comment (not you, Stu). I think I will leave it for posterity. :)
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Lisa & Adam, at 9:11 am
I love Dungeness and the RH&DR and Romney Marsh. You ought to blog everyday about different bits of Kent.
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Anonymous, at 9:17 am
Dungeness is great! :)
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Pookledo, at 9:49 am
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