Nayland Rock Hotel
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Sacrificing home comforts for backpacker lifestyle
... mention everywhere else that our travels will take us. Now for me to experience all this will be profoundly life changing.... I am so used to my home comforts, to leave all this behind will be a frightening thought, but something I'm willing to sacrifice. I'm not someone who adapts to change very easily, as people will tell you, and travelling is of course something whereby you are on the move constantly and ...
A visit from Canada and Canterbury
Melissa and Colin came to visit us at the beginning of October!
We had a lot of fun - they toured all around London and saw so many things. We went and for met Brad for dinner one night, went to Islington another night and Greenwich on their last night in Londontown.
While they were visiting we saw the theatre show, Wicked. It was amazing! The singing was so great and the story was very entertaining. It was ...
Chapter Five - Dover Castle
... five-floor haul up to the roof.
After visiting the castle, we continue to the secret wartime tunnels dug under the cliffs below. There are over three miles of these tunnels going deep down into the chalky cliffs, some still unexplored and still closed to the public. We are guided through the principal passageways, which include a ...
Chapter Four - Sandwich and the coast
... finally land up at the Beach Hut Café (many miles from any beach) on Breezy Corner (no corner, and no breeze). I enjoy a terrific carrot and tomato soup while waiting for the others.
We now continue to the coast of the English Channel at Ramsgate, which we find somewhat depressing. This is a seaside resort that has seen better days and now ...
Chapter Three - Canterbury Cathedral
... to the Westgate, the original main entry to the city and used by pilgrims for hundreds of years. Canterbury has been a European pilgrimage site of major importance for over 800 years since the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in 1170. It is also the beginning of the route to Santiago de Compostella in Spain and the Via Francigena to Rome.
It’s strange to ...
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