Shopping, in my view, should never be the focus of the day, but I may allow some exceptions. One would be the need for food, so that is how we spent the morning - at Tesco getting supplies to meet our needs and a few (alright more than a few) luxuries for our holiday. We will probably have to shop again, but not for much. Even with a list though, there were still things we didn't get, because they hadn't been put on it. We did buy lunch - sandwiches and fruit, a selection of apple, mango and persimmon. Persimmon I had not tried before, and it went into the list of favourite fruits well above mango (I will eat mango, but I will not request it). We walked up onto the cliffs and found a seat with a great view over St Margaret's-at-Cliffe.
We walked up to the South Foreland light house, where Marconi experimented with radio, the first light house to have an electric light. Sadly, time has passed light houses by and they have been superseded by GPS. How long will it be before they are returned to service as our satellites are destroyed by ever increasing space junk? They will still be here, but the holiday lets will have to be cancelled.
It was only a short walk - we would have gone on past the light house, but the wind was gusting and very strong, right on the highest point of the cliff walking was unpleasant and bordering on dangerous.
The next exception that permits shopping is shopping for others, so we went towards Canterbury to Barnsole Vineyard. Here we purchased our Christmas wine, to give as presents. Returning to St Margaret's Bay, we stopped in Eastry and old Saxon Village for a wander around. We arrived at school pickup time and found that Saxon descendants drive as badly as everyone else.
After cooking and eating dinner we walked down to "The Coastguard" for a pint.
There are two things worthy of note on the way down to the pub. A Victorian pillar box, and a Napoleonic wall.
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