Archive for October, 2013
October 2nd, 2013
CANTERBURY — Today is the day I said goodbye to Grafty Green and hello to Canterbury. After another lazy start to the day I entered Canterbury as the destination into the SatNav and discovered Canterbury was only forty minutes away so I got out the map and decided to head south to Folkestone. Got there shortly after noon, found a car park, and headed for the seashore.
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October 1st, 2013
GRAFTY GREEN — Today I went to Smallhythe, a little village not far from Tenterden, and a National Trust property called Smallhythe Place. Smallhythe’s claim to fame is that it used to have a large shipbuilding industry in Medieval England when it was situated on the tidal Rother River. The river has since silted up and what used to be a large harbour is now agricultural fields.
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September 30th, 2013
GRAFTY GREEN — Cooked breakfast is served from 9:30 a.m. so it was a bit of a slow start to the day. This morning I revisited (from my last trip) the parish churches of Egerton and Pluckley. I think I might have found some additional headstones for family I may have missed last time—the inscriptions are not very legible.
Afterwards I drove down to Ashford to find a Post Office so I could send home a small parcel of souvenir guides. It will lighten my luggage by a couple of kilograms. I also had to buy a new sun hat as I seem to have misplaced (read lost) my old one. I have no idea when and where I last saw it.
September 29th, 2013
GRAFTY GREEN — Said goodbye to Ockley and headed for Grafty Green. An hour later I was in Royal Tunbridge Wells where I decided to stop and have some lunch. I found a park in a parking building but the two pay and display vending machines on my level were out of order. I had to go down a level in order to get my ticket and back up again to display it. Found an outlet of the West Cornwall Pastie Company and enjoyed a Cornish pastie in East Sussex. Apparently they are handmade in Cornwall—I suspect because the EU says they can’t be called Cornish if they’re not made in Cornwall.
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