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There's No Place Like Home
... that unitied the nation so much. In the evening we went to The Grand Palace to join in the celebrations. Everyone there had a yellow candle, and during the national anthem the city lights were all turned off leaving only candle light - it was beautiful. Afterwards every family had a chinese lantern that they lit. There were hundereds of them floating into the sky, it was an incredible thing to see. They continued floating over the city all night, although ...
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
Yes, my friends, there is a place called Sandwich, and it's named after the 4th. Earl of Sandwich who is purported to have invented the sandwich during a particularly elongated gambling session. So indeed we'll have a ham sandwich in Sandwich.
The town of Sandwich of course predates the brilliant invention of the Earl of Sandwich and was ...
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 ...
Chapter Two. Lenham
... store, public library, a Chinese take-away, a fish n'chip shop, and even a lingerie boutique.
We need some basic provisions to tide us over for the week.
"Go to Sainsbury’s in Maidstone" advises our loquacious host in Lenham. “You don’t have to pay for parking there.” Parking is expensive in Europe, ...
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