Very nice

Apart from Chambers Beer Festival and Kapetan Michales (reviewed and to be reviewed on Folkestone RestauRANTS, this weekend I also enjoyed a walk from Folkestone to Hythe via Sandgate, mostly along the sea front, there's something you don't get in Stokey... lots of interesting houses and other buildings on the way, stopped in a couple of nice pubs, and saw some lovely squirrels, photos to follow...

We also had a trip out to Dungeness - it's a crazy place, a bit spooky, it seems like a big american desert community, like Roswell or something. There are some fascinating houses around there, and a real feeling of space. There's a big lighthouse, a miniature railway that runs all the way to Hythe, and obviously a massive nuclear power station. More details at dungeness.com, next time we go there we'll get the little steam train there from Hythe.

We had a TURD of a meal on the way to Dungeness, somewhere in Romney Marsh (though there is confusingly a pub of the same name in Dymchurch, have to get this right), will find out the name of the place, and attempt to do it proper injustice with a review.

As I say, pictures to follow, got to run now.

pauly :: 2004 :: Comment / reply

RE: Dungeness

wow..it's been ages since ive been there. did u see any three eyed fish down dungeness? it's one of those rather shitty parts of kent (like herne bay and ramsgate and margate) that i prefer to think doesnt exist.

I like Hythe...i was upset when they improved the sea walls cos there was nowt better than hitting a chippie and going to watch the tidal waves crashing into people's front doors.

dymchurch is a funny old place. dont have any anecdotes related to dymchurch although i have travelled on said railway.

i know hythe :: 14 Apr :: 2004 :: Comment / reply

No three eyed fish

Dungeness was cool I thought, very peaceful and spacious. Whether that's because the only people still there are dead from radiation poisoning, I wouldn't like to say. We saw some cool houses there, and this excellent 1950s style American trailer thing, a kind of silver rounded "slipstream" type caravan with no windows... looked very dated, but futuristic at the same time.

Looking forward to going back there and having more of a walk around, and going in the pub, The Britannia I think.

pauly :: 14 Apr :: 2004 :: Comment / reply

did u fiddle with my message?

there's something different about it.

have you been to st margaret's bay? i remember being a young lad and slipping on the rock pools and falling in the water and stuff.

also, one of the good things about dungeness way is that they have sandy beaches - st mary's bay being point in case. it's quite a good beach actually.

moomintrude :: 14 Apr :: 2004 :: Comment / reply

No no fiddling

and not been to St Margaret's Bay or St Mary's Bay, though I think they were both mentioned at the weekend. I'm not originally from round that way, that was my first trip to Dungeness.