Happily back in the YouKay (UK) with a week outside of Canterbury and a week in London. The first half of the trip has already been enjoyed but without a net connection I couldn't tell you 'bout it. So for a bit, this will be catch up and yes, already I've asked dh ...Was it yesterday we went to...? Fortunately, the date stamp on the photos is working. ;-)
Some of you may wonder why we would choose to go off somewhere in the depth of winter. Well, MD often has a bad snowstorm near Valentine's day and we have been fortunate to take some lovely short trips (thru dh's work) to warm weather spots in February. So last year, we went off to Spain and Portugal in February and last summer I decided to make plans for a UK trip, again in Febraury. How quickly I forget how heavey winter clothes (and shoes) are but the upside is relatively uncrowded locations. Ah but the short days are one of the biggest drawbacks and neither of us has much interest in driving on unknown roads in the dark.
We planned a week at Broome Park which is 7 miles outside of Canterbury and about 7 miles from both Dover and Folkestone. It was Lord Kitchner's home in byegone days and now there are timeshare villas on the property as well as suites in the manor house. So close to the Channel Tunnel, it would have been easy to cross the Channel to Paris but we decided that it would not be this trip.
A nice 2bed villa, with some features I hadn't seen since my England days in the 70s
Non mixing taps...nothing like waiting for the hot to get to scalding.
Interesting separators in the wardrobe. Quite useful I think.
But the raison d'etre for this part of the trip was to show dh The Countryside. Well, not quite country but not London. Canterbury.
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