Bike ride from Folkstone to Rye through Romney Marsh
Members of the Grosvenor Cycle Club (‘Bikes + Beer’) went for a day out on Sunday and cycled about 30+ miles from Folkstone > Hythe > St Mary in the Marsh > Lydd > Camber...
Tagged: Seaside
Margate’s winter seas – walking along the seafront in January
View east along Margate beach, taken standing on the edge of the tidal swimming pool. [Edited to add: apparently now classified as a ‘boating’ pool due to Health & Safety regs, although many swimmers choose...
A virtual Treasure Trail; vintage raffle map of UK in Margate cafe
On a recent visit to Margate, we stopped at the Greedy Cow cafe. Not only are they v friendly and serve delicious home-made cakes and coffee, but there is great stuff to look at...
Shapes & textures from Hastings’ beach
You can’t beat a trip to the seaside for fresh air to woosh your head full of new ideas.
Ne pas grimper
in Dover Castle… We went down for a book launch (illustrated by my mum) and spent the afternoon exploring the castle and Dover. It felt like the first proper Autumn day we’ve had this...
A weekend on the Kent coast; Folkstone festival and amazing B&B in Hythe
You might have gathered that weekends out of town are popular around here.. :) And with the super hot weather, nowhere is better than by (or in!) the sea… We took the train down to...
Bleak beach
Seasalter: it was an ‘Every day is like Sunday’ kind of beach. There’s something about beaches like this that I love. They inspire me; I feel like I could spend a week holed up...
A trip to the seaside
M took me for a birthday lunch at Terre a Terre in Brighton… deelish! It was also the first day of proper June sunshine here in London, so predictably the Brighton train was packed...