EasyRiderWIMB - Kent coast explored.

[Ashberto]

People here are a bit quick to dismiss places as dumps imo, but having visited Dover the other day (while on a little road trip around the Kent/E Sussex coast) it has to be said that the town centre is really, really awful. Barnsley is positively brimming with cheer and beauty by comparison. The only signs of life to punctuate Dover’s run-down Saturday evening desolation were the somewhat menacing characters looming and lurking among the ruins. :shudder:

Also – Dungeness :-| Leysdown-on-sea :yikes:
OTOH – Broadstairs and Sandwich looked nice, as were Rye and Hastings.
Deal was as bleak and depressing as I remember it from 30 years ago,

[Classic Jorge]

[Hillary]

Yorkshire Museum :bow:
Wensleydale :bow:
Whitby :bow: even though it was a bit bow-wow-wow in terms of the human life forms, if you know what I mean.

The Dales are quite the most beautiful part of England I've ever visited - spectacular doesn't come close.

[PSRB]

I went about week before Appleby, bloody scary in the local pubs of an evening!!

[Classic Jorge]

It's one of the most lovely things in my life that I live on the edge of the dales.

I do hop you got the brassy lady on the whitby open top bus tour, or at least read Dracula beforehand.

I do hope you and your wife enjoyed visiting Hawes.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

However, as in all things, there is good and bad. Folkestone has a spectacular harbour and a peach of a little beach, by which you will find this absolute gem:

http://www.rocksaltfolkestone.co.uk/

[Hillary]

Very ample ladies and mean-looking, bald men. It was difficult to tell many of them apart - more genetic diversity in the royal family imo

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

[Hillary]

We didn't do the open-top bus as we ran out of time - we only had the one full day in Whitby.

Hawes was terrific - went for a brief walk in the evening, the views as the sun was setting - wow!

[PSRB]

stayed here gratis http://www.yorebridgehouse.co.uk/

courtesy of the Sunday Times and the lass I was seeing at the time

[Hillary]

in amongst the bizarre surplus syllable and deficient consonant local ones

[Classic Jorge]

Buttertubs Pass :bow:

[PSRB]

that meant something to the husband and wife that owned the place

[Classic Jorge]

Then again I dont expect you are intending to

[PSRB]

nice place but think that's going a little far

[Ashberto]

It looked nicer than Dover, at least. Dover castle is worth a visit though.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Ashberto]

He didn't look like he was flying his aircraft.

Apparently it costs two pounds per visitor to maintain. Just as well that Ms A didn't get out of the car to have a look as well (it was a windy day) or they would have to have found another two quid from somewhere.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

They're building a nice new visitor centre, apparently.

The day I was there it was blowing a gale which felt like it had come straight from Siberia. I think it's probably a feature of the spot.

If you're out that way again, St Margaret's Bay is home to another opportunity for really great seafood, right down on the beach under towering cliffs. Pretty spectacular.

http://www.thecoastguard.co.uk/