Guidebook for Sandgate
Food Scene
..don't tell anyone in Folkestone - but it feels like London: really good coffee, amazing sandwiches, cozy sofas - just great.
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Loaf
61 Sandgate High St..don't tell anyone in Folkestone - but it feels like London: really good coffee, amazing sandwiches, cozy sofas - just great.
...best ice cream in Folkestone - best ice-cream in the area: totally unexpected amazing proper Italian ice-cream.
14 Cheriton Pl
14 Cheriton Place...best ice cream in Folkestone - best ice-cream in the area: totally unexpected amazing proper Italian ice-cream.
Because the heir of Shorncliffe Lodge Phillip Sassoon sold the Lodge at auction in 1912 in order to build this much grander house for entertaining in bigger style.
1) Book 2 days in advance tea there - they have the best scones I have ever eaten in Britain. It is served in the jungle room
2) Have early dinner at the garden room, around 7pm in summer - come an hour early and stroll the gardens and enjoy the truly exhilarating views across Romney Marsh to the sea. This is also the best time to see the lions and other predators as twilight is the time the y become active. You can wander from the gardens straight into the animal park..and at that time the last day visitors will have left so it is quiet and magic.
Port Lympne Hotel
Aldington RoadBecause the heir of Shorncliffe Lodge Phillip Sassoon sold the Lodge at auction in 1912 in order to build this much grander house for entertaining in bigger style.
1) Book 2 days in advance tea there - they have the best scones I have ever eaten in Britain. It is served in the jungle room
2) Have early dinner at the garden room, around 7pm in summer - come an hour early and stroll the gardens and enjoy the truly exhilarating views across Romney Marsh to the sea. This is also the best time to see the lions and other predators as twilight is the time the y become active. You can wander from the gardens straight into the animal park..and at that time the last day visitors will have left so it is quiet and magic.
Arts & Culture
Great Dixter House & Gardens
Quarterhouse
49 Tontine StMusic, Gallery, Theatre ..I have never had a bad time there.
Drinks & Nightlife
Earl of Clarendon
Brewer's HillCozy pub
Inn Doors Micropub
96 Sandgate High StParks & Nature
Watch the tide!! Go along the rocks to the mud cliffs - some of the most amazing fossils (Ammonites) can be peeled out of the mud there or you find them all cleaned for you by the sea in between the rocks. Great for kids as success is guaranteed.
http://www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/ammonites.htm - that and the view onto the white cliffs is pretty good.
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Sunny Sands Kiosk
The Stade Watch the tide!! Go along the rocks to the mud cliffs - some of the most amazing fossils (Ammonites) can be peeled out of the mud there or you find them all cleaned for you by the sea in between the rocks. Great for kids as success is guaranteed.
http://www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/ammonites.htm - that and the view onto the white cliffs is pretty good.
Fabulous play ground for children, the park itself has won awards for the skilled planting, you can barbecue there, walk a zig zag path up the cliffs through Edwardian grottos to the Leas Promenade.
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Lower Leas Küstenpark
Lower Sandgate RoadFabulous play ground for children, the park itself has won awards for the skilled planting, you can barbecue there, walk a zig zag path up the cliffs through Edwardian grottos to the Leas Promenade.
Iconic for England, very meaningful for English people when they return home from the continent.
http://www.doverwhiteclifftours.com
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Die weißen Klippen von Dover
Upper RoadIconic for England, very meaningful for English people when they return home from the continent.
http://www.doverwhiteclifftours.com
..it has a very strange, stark atmosphere - quite a few artist live here (Derek Jarman, the filmmaker had his cottage and garden here - black house with yellow painted windows - it is still there). The nuclear power station might be a put off. There is an ancient lighthouse - a couple of pubs and a little steam railways which takes you all the way back to Hythe.
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Dungeness National Nature Reserve
..it has a very strange, stark atmosphere - quite a few artist live here (Derek Jarman, the filmmaker had his cottage and garden here - black house with yellow painted windows - it is still there). The nuclear power station might be a put off. There is an ancient lighthouse - a couple of pubs and a little steam railways which takes you all the way back to Hythe.
Getting Around
Papers you need:
National Insurance Number, 2 bills in your name and a driving license..thus only suitable for British nationals..very good value
Folkestone Vehicle Rentals Ltd
Unit 14 Ross WayPapers you need:
National Insurance Number, 2 bills in your name and a driving license..thus only suitable for British nationals..very good value
53 minutes on the fast train to London St Pancras.
15 min to Ashford - get on the Eurostar and get to Paris in 2 hours.
Folkestone West Railway Station
Shorncliffe Road53 minutes on the fast train to London St Pancras.
15 min to Ashford - get on the Eurostar and get to Paris in 2 hours.
Bus stop to go towards Dover - Canterbury
the bus stop for Hythe, Lydd and Dymchurch - I love buses.
The website is stagecoach.com - it is very easy to plan your journey there.
The Crescent
The CrescentBus stop to go towards Dover - Canterbury
the bus stop for Hythe, Lydd and Dymchurch - I love buses.
The website is stagecoach.com - it is very easy to plan your journey there.
Essentials
...it has everything you need (!) and is open from 5.30 am to 8pm. It is just a 5 min walk. It has all the newspapers you wish for: the economist, the guardian, spectator, vogue, world of interiors, country life, the week..its fabulous..the most important english things: tea, coffee sugar, dishwasher salt and tablets, washing powder, milk marmalade, toast, biscuits, brown sauce, eggs, apples...shoelaces you name it...and a cash machine!!
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The Village Shop
...it has everything you need (!) and is open from 5.30 am to 8pm. It is just a 5 min walk. It has all the newspapers you wish for: the economist, the guardian, spectator, vogue, world of interiors, country life, the week..its fabulous..the most important english things: tea, coffee sugar, dishwasher salt and tablets, washing powder, milk marmalade, toast, biscuits, brown sauce, eggs, apples...shoelaces you name it...and a cash machine!!
Shopping
Check the internet if they have the brand and the item you want - otherwise you will come home with a lot of things you do not want in the end.
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Ashford Designer Outlet
Check the internet if they have the brand and the item you want - otherwise you will come home with a lot of things you do not want in the end.
Fish and lobster - clams, cockles and whelks...take our bikes early in the morning - open form 7.30am to 3.30pm.
1 Fish Market
1 Fish MarketFish and lobster - clams, cockles and whelks...take our bikes early in the morning - open form 7.30am to 3.30pm.