After a nice breakfast, we headed into town once again. This time we kept going, because on the other side of town is 'Whitstable Castle'. Our host called it a folly. It is really only a large house, built in the late 1700s and the garden was originally an industrial site. The garden was very nice, the roses looked particularly healthy, but are, of course, not in bloom yet.
 | | Whitstable Castle Gate house. |
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 | | Whitstable Castle Welcome Board |
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 | | The Castle and Tearooms |
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 | | The Castle Garden, looking to the bowling green |
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We sat outside, even though it was quite chilly in the shade, watched the children play, and made a fuss of a Labrador.
Then it was back to town, we had lunch in "The Tudor Tearooms". I went in for the crab cakes. While the meal was good, and the service excellent, the crab cakes themselves were lacking the essential crab flavour. It meant that we had had two large meals in succession.
Another of the oddities on the way back to the B&B is this creature (?). I couldn't get a picture yesterday because the light was all wrong, but today in the early afternoon with a carefully chosen angle, here it is.
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We bought some light food for dinner and drove to Herne Bay, where we had a drink in "The Ship", then sat in the car and watched the sun go down. Several people got in the way of this shot, so it is my first attempt that survived.
The road we are parked on is next to the sea wall. There is a prohibition against parking on the sea wall (you'd need wheels the size of tractor wheels to get up there!). The road is narrow and has a 20MPH speed limit. Cars were passing us at probably double that, our car moved as they passed. It was lovely watching the sun go down, but I didn't feel that safe.
We drove back home in the dark. There is nothing else to do in the evenings on Monday's and Tuesday's. |
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