The Ship Hotel
Travel Blogs from New Romney
There's No Place Like Home
... end of the evening we had to watch where we were walking as they started falling back to earth! It was a magical evening though, and a great way to spend our last night of travelling.
So the next day we headed to the airport to start our homeward journey. Sam and I were flying to Sri Lanka, and stopping over in Colombo for the night, before flying to Heathrow the next day. We were put up in a complimentary beach-front hotel with breakfast and dinner, it ...
Chapter Five - Dover Castle
"Oh my goodness, this must be a typical autumn day. Just look and the wind and rain" laments Cecilia. "I'm glad I brought my wooly underwear!"
“Wooly underwear?”
“Just kidding. Can you still get wooly underwear?”
We take the M20 motorway through attractive hilly countryside hardly seen through ...
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
... city, one of the principal tourist attractions of Britain, so empty on a Sunday morning. Makes for great photos though, and we enjoy coffee in an almost deserted Starbucks.
At 10:30 we approach Christ Church Gate again and are ushered inside the cathedral. Onlookers wonder if we are visiting VIPs or something. I guess it never occurred to them to visit the cathedral during ...
Chapter Two. Lenham
... Lenham we realose that we have forgotten to buy bread at Sainsbury’s, so as the baker is just around the corner from the cottage, we pop round to stock up for breakfast. The owner is just locking up.
“Sorry. We’re closed. We open tomorrow at 8:00.”
We must have lookedx awfully downcast, so she goes ...