DOUVRES -CALAIS in swimming = Challenge 2012 ?

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THE CHIC & CHOC WHISTABLE

Whistable ( White Staple-'chief's meeting place'). Known since Roman times for its fine oysters. The community, clustered around the harbour and along the sea front, has traditionally earned its livelihood from the sea and those trades connected with it. Despite floods and fires a few quaint fishermen's cottages still exist, though the overall character of the town has been transformed since the coming of the railway and its subsequent development. But is is, of course, for the ' Native Oyster' that Whistable is known world-wide ! 

TANKERTON & " les paillettes de la mer"

Tankerton is after Whistable on the way to Herne Bay , there are a beach huts like Deauville without umbrellas. Its curious you can walk a long way out to sea on a shingle strip hidden by the water its called " The street " you can stop at Jojo's cafe its nice.

FOLKESTONE & THE MERMAID

This is the new Folkestone Mermaid.

She is modelled on a real folketstone woman. She is very pleased to be on display! The statue cost £30,000 and has only just been put up in the harbour

RECULVER AND THE PHANTOM

Reculver is a roman fort . half of it has been washed away by the sea , there is a ruined church with two towers right by the sea . take your eyes on the left because on a right there are lots of caravans , they say the fort is haunted .

Reculver fort, saxon church and towers. This coastal promontory started as an iron stage settlement and was developed as the Roman Garrison fortress of Regulbium to guard the once navigable northern end of the Wantsum Channel. Anglo- Saxon chroniclers record that King Etherbert later re-developed the site in 669 for monastic and religious  purposes as a penance for foul deeds done in obtaining the throne. Three hundred later King Eadred gave the site to the Archbishopric of Canterbury. In the middle ages the two prominent towers were added and the "minster" became a parish church. The buildings survived right up to the early 19 th century, by which time the sea had eroded the site to such an extent that the remaining structure of the church demolished. The towers, however, were saved by the intervantion of the corperation of  Trinity house  as a distinctive landmark for passing estuary shipping. 

HYTHE : Freedom

Hythe is by the sea . its a cinque ports like Fordwich , there is a really nice walk along the sea side .Hythe Bay fish restaurant is really nice .

THE LOVELY VILLAGE : CHILHAM

Chilham four miles from Chatham its really nice tiny square old wooden houses , you can see the castle through the gates . there is an old Kentish tea room , we had cream tea  ( tres anglais ) they have made several films in the square .

Chilham Castle is a manor house and keep in the village of Chilham, between Ashford and Canterbury in the county of Kent, England. The polygonal Norman keep of the Castle, the oldest building in the village, dates from 1174; still inhabited, it was said to have been built for King Henry II. But archaeological excavations carried out in the 1920s suggest that it stands on the foundations of a much olderAnglo-Saxon fortification, possibly dating from the fifth century, and there is evidence of earlier Roman habitation in the vicinity.