After visiting Waddesdon we headed to Hastings to stay with Colin's brother and explore the area.
We did a day trip to the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway. We crossed the border back into Kent and caught the little steam train from Romney which travelled to Hythe and Dymchurch and then onto Dungeness.
The entire journey takes about an hour in each direction. At Romney there is a miniture railway display to look at.
At Hythe there are Victorian tea rooms serving High Tea and at Dungeness there is a cafe at the station and plenty of opportunity to go for a walk and explore the surrounding area.
They call Dungeness the desert of England. The landscape has on one side a flat shingle beach reaching out to the sea and on the other a Nuclear Power station. Approximately once a week a train departs Dungeness carrying Nuclear waste. For security reasons no-one knows exactly when.
There are strange dwellings, old railway carriages turned into homes, black painted dwellings that are a little bit spooky. Abandoned boats on the shingle. A few of the houses have been turned into art studios.
There are two lighthouses and a couple of pubs. It is a bleak and foreboding landscape rich with wildlife. I dont think I would like to be there after dark.
We did a day trip to the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway. We crossed the border back into Kent and caught the little steam train from Romney which travelled to Hythe and Dymchurch and then onto Dungeness.
The entire journey takes about an hour in each direction. At Romney there is a miniture railway display to look at.
At Hythe there are Victorian tea rooms serving High Tea and at Dungeness there is a cafe at the station and plenty of opportunity to go for a walk and explore the surrounding area.
They call Dungeness the desert of England. The landscape has on one side a flat shingle beach reaching out to the sea and on the other a Nuclear Power station. Approximately once a week a train departs Dungeness carrying Nuclear waste. For security reasons no-one knows exactly when.
There are strange dwellings, old railway carriages turned into homes, black painted dwellings that are a little bit spooky. Abandoned boats on the shingle. A few of the houses have been turned into art studios.
There are two lighthouses and a couple of pubs. It is a bleak and foreboding landscape rich with wildlife. I dont think I would like to be there after dark.
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| Colin on the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway |
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| Nuclear Power station Dungeness |
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| Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway |
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