Yes, indeed. Nothing's quite like that fresh sea taste trickling down your throat.
That whole part of Kent is also something of a refuge for bizarre old customs. The great English photographer Tony Ray-Jones squeezed a lot of mileage out of it; he took some of his best photos in and around Rochester. -- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: John Forbes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 12 February 2006 15:08 > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: Re: The Sacrifices > > 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 > > > > -- > > 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ > > > >
