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Slow Kent travel guide - holiday advice and tourist information covering history, walking, wildlife, gardens, family holidays, country houses, accommodation, restaurants, food, vineyards and festivals. Thorough coverage, including Canterbury, Dover, the White Cliffs, Dungeness, Sissinghurst, Folkestone and Faversham.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
GOING SLOW IN KENT
Kent landscapes, Gardens, Kent wildlife, Kent architecture, Sacred Kent, A taste of Kent, Creative Kent, Active Kent, How this book is arranged, Getting there & around
1 Canterbury & surrounds
Getting there & around, Canterbury, North & east of Canterbury, South & west of Canterbury
2 North Kent: Gravesend to Faversham
Getting there & around, Gravesend, Cobham & surrounds, Ranscombe Farm Reserve, Hoo Peninsula, Medway towns, Isle of Sheppey, Faversham, Around Faversham
3 Thanet, Sandwich & Deal
Getting there & around, Margate & surrounds, Broadstairs, Ramsgate & surrounds, Sandwich, Richborough Roman Fort & Amphitheatre, Goodnestone & surrounds, Deal & surrounds
4 Southeast Coastal Kent: Dover to Dungeness
Getting there & around, Dover & surrounds, Folkestone, Sandgate, Elham & surrounds, Hythe & surrounds, Romney Marsh
5 Kent Weald & Downs
Getting there & around, Darent Valley, Westerham & surrounds, Sevenoaks & surrounds, Edenbridge & surrounds, Tonbridge & surrounds, Royal Tunbridge Wells & surrounds, Further into the High Weald, Sissinghurst & surrounds, Tenterden & surrounds, Maidstone & surrounds, Ashford & surrounds
Accommodation
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
UK -born writer, photographer and artist, Simon Richmond (www.simonrichmond.com) has been researching and writing global travel guidebooks and other non-fiction titles for major publishers including Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, DK Eyewitness and Time Out for over 25 years. Having lived overseas for nearly two decades, Simon first visited Folkestone in 2014, during the third edition of its arts triennial. He was so taken by the seaside town that, three weeks later, he had bought a flat and was planning his relocation from London. By switching the city for the seaside Simon, like many other DFLs (Down From Londoners) has benefited from an improved quality of life. In his research for Slow Travel Kent he's travelled all over the county, revisiting favourite haunts such as Canterbury, Ramsgate, Margate and Dungeness; it's also been a treat to find good reasons to journey out to remote but sublime locations like the Isle of Grain and the Isle of Harty. He's particularly enjoyed tracking down Kent's horticultural treasures, particularly lesser-known gems like Pines Gardens in St Margaret's Bay and the gardens attached to Restoration House in Rochester. Follow the visual record of his travels on Instagram (@slowtravelkent) and catch some of his sketches of the region on www.facebook.com/urbansketchersfolkestone.
Zusammenfassung
Slow Kent travel guide - holiday advice and tourist information covering history, walking, wildlife, gardens, family holidays, country houses, accommodation, restaurants, food, vineyards and festivals. Thorough coverage, including Canterbury, Dover, the White Cliffs, Dungeness, Sissinghurst, Folkestone and Faversham.
Vorwort
. Bestselling and award-winning series: sales of the Slow Travel series have almost doubled during the pandemic (2021 vs 2019, source: Nielsen)
. Written by Folkestone resident and award-winning travel writer Simon Richmond
. The most thorough and comprehensive guide to Kent available
About Bradt Travel Guides
. Founded in 1974, Bradt is now the largest independent guidebook publisher in the UK with over 200 titles in print
. Serial winner of the Gold award for Best Guidebook Series in the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards
. Bradt guides are written by authors who really know their destinations. Many are resident there, or have been visiting regularly over a number of years
. Each new Bradt guide is backed by a dedicated press and social media campaign
