Whitstable's OK, too. The natives are tasty.
John
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:05:51 -0000, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bob,
Rochester may be dreary, but you're on the way to the North Kent Marshes,
which are a spectacular wetland/salt marsh habitat, and the setting of
the
opening scene of Great Expectations when Pip meets Magwitch in the
graveyard
at Cooling.
It's very beautiful, and very important in historical and literary
terms -
it may be the setting for much of Beowulf, and was certainly one of the
points where the Angles & Saxons first came to this country. So of course
the government naturally wanted to put an airport there. Fortunately I
think
they were defeated on that one.
http://hostgate.co.uk/northkentmarshes/index.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/features/298feature1.shtml
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Cheers,
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Shell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 12 February 2006 13:26
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: The Sacrifices
On Feb 12, 2006, at 5:01 AM, Cotty wrote:
> We won't be ready to receive guests until the summer. Summer in
> England is a magical time.
Agreed. I have actually managed to be there in the summer a
few times when it wasn't raining.
I used to "commute" to England when I was publishing a
magazine there. Two weeks here, two weeks there, permanent
jet lag. I spent most of my time in Hove/Brighton and in
London, but got out regularly
on the Sussex downs for photo shoots, and up to Kent a few times.
Once to Rochester, which I found dreary.
Bob
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