Monthly Archives: September 2019

And so we said farewell to Whitstable and headed off on the A2, M2, M20 and several other roads, toward the village of Cranleigh in the county of Surrey, where we would stay the night with our niece and nephew. Cranleigh claims to be the largest village in England, with its population of about 11,000.Continue reading “Cranleigh and the West”

Final day in Whitstable We are now into our last couple of days at Whitstable, the weather is still perfect, and one half of our party has gone to Canterbury to collect the hire car for the next leg. It is amazing how time has got away from us, as we consider we still haveContinue reading “Sketches around Whitstable”

The winding main street of Whitstable is not very wide at best, and very narrow indeed in some parts. The footpaths are similarly of varying widths, and with the throngs of mostly tourists, people ‘down from London’, a few local residents moving around, and too many cars for comfort, walking around was necessarily slow. ThisContinue reading “Sketches of Whitstable 2”

  So here we are in Whitstable, which, for those who are not familiar with this part of England, is on the north coast of Kent, at the extremity of the Thames estuary. It is readily accessible from London by rail, which passes through the Medway towns of Chatham and Rochester, well known to theContinue reading “Sketches of Whitstable”

  Well, here we are, back in England! At one stage we thought that we might actually miss the flight when we were trapped on our way to the airport by a B-Double that had jack-knifed trying to make a u-turn in a road that was far too small for it! The last time weContinue reading “Back in Blighty 2019”