We set out from Canterbury with Pawley Cider and store bought lunch sandwiches in our hands and the Kent Battle of Britain Museum in our sights. Unfortunately, the Museum is closed on Mondays so we travelled up the road to find a place to chow down and cider up. We discovered – at a bend [...]

I don’t think I will ever get used to the history that exists so naturally and so matter of factly throughout England. You’re just walking down a narrow cobble street and there it is… the gate to Canterbury Cathedral – with big orange bags of laundry or some such in front of it – blessed [...]

I have yet to find a town in England that wasn’t worth a wander but Canterbury, ah, Canterbury – not a dollar is needed to meander its streets day or night and find structures and snippets of interest everywhere. The meandering started after our return to Canterbury following the surprisingly delightful bat & trap competition. [...]

We had to scurry to make it to from The Shipwrights Arms in Oare to the semi-final for the Canterbury Bat & Trap League. I’d never seen a bat & trap game before and – to be honest – it was more as a curiosity than with any real interest that we had made plans [...]

Despite what the listing on the Campaign for Real Ale website says, The Shipwrights Arms is not readily visible from the road (unless the writer means the meandering single lane road that leads to the Arms but first you have to find that road). However, it was well worth the several false starts that led [...]

If my daddy were still alive and my son was still five they would have spent their entire vacation at The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway. I enjoyed it immensely–totally relaxing journey on a scale train that runs right next to the walls of people’s homes; however, for families with small children (particularly boys) RHDR [...]

With beer filled bellies we meandered through the Faversham Hop Festival for another hour. The crowds had a friendly feel and several times we ran into a Dutch couple we had met while parking our car. In the spirit of the day, we soon found ourselves wearing crowns made of hops. Although we never spied [...]

Several weeks before touring the Shepherd Neame brewery in Faversham I knew I was going to enjoy the tour and not just because it ends with a sampling followed by a half pint of free beer; no, my enjoyment began when I called the brewery from stateside to ask a few questions and was greeted [...]

As I was saying… Early this winter there was a lively debate in The Guardian over whether morris dancing was soon to disappear; even fans of the art often spoke of it with a touch of humor. Those who weren’t fans fell over themselves making fun of these mostly working class people who can embody [...]