The Victoria Hotel Canterbury
59 London Road Canterbury, Kent, England, CT2 8JY, United Kingdom
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... off, armed with an area OS map and compass, I try to be out hiking as long as daylight affords. On one of my first hikes I came across funny shaped houses which I had never seen before - neither in other parts of England, Wales or Scotland not in other countries. On a later visit to the Tunbridge Wells museum, I discovered that these houses are called Oast Houses. First time visitors to Kent and Sussex are often puzzled ...
Crossing the Englsih Channel
The trip officially started today. I had to arrive at the Royal National hotel courtyard by 6:45 so that sucked, and then an hour and a half later we were all finally on the bus and heading out to France. Most of the trip so far has been our tour ...
Short Stop Over
... must say it is quite a large impressive structure. There are quite a few a few nice little winding roads which we manged to find! The city itself was pretty sleepy aprt from the ASDA where we had lunch! 4.50 pounds for a steak and mushroom pie with veggies and chips and a drink went down fairly well. It kinda made us feel like we were backpacking all over again. We love ...
We're off!
Ok - just thrown the last few things in the van: - salt and vinegar crisps (check), pork pie (check), crumpets (check) - and we are off to the ferry!
We aim for, and succeed on getting on the earlier ferry, and after a burger we are loaded onto the ferry for the 2 hour ...
Vive La France!
... hour late and we climbed aboard. It seemed like no time before we arrived at French customs and then our bus was driven onto a gigantic enclosed train carriage for our trip under the English Channel via one of the Wonders of The Modern World. The actual under water section took only 35 minutes – so much quicker than the ferry crossing.
Another couple of hours later and we arrived at our first French destination of Lille and walked to our ...
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