Motorhome Life - Week 5 - 30 September - Isle of Sheppey - Maidstone - Ramsgate - Margate

 Disclaimer: 10 years ago this week I posted below, I'm sure Isle of Sheppey is now lovely!

Isle of Sheppey, hmm, what can I say that's nice... Hmmm, well there were a lot of retro caravans on the site, which I love, so walking around the campsite was nice... Umm. That's about it really, Sheerness, the main town, and a dowdy old town it was with a sea wall you can walk along. Oh, and we discovered why Peter Andres goes to Iceland! This place needs some serious injection of cash into it. 

Honestly it could be made into a lovely little seaside town, unless of course we turned left when we should have turned right! Leysdown on the other side of the Island was more touristy, with lots of camp sites, but had one street down to the seafront, which was basically Amusements Arcades and Cafe's.

So onto Maidstone... We stayed at Bearsted Park, lovely place couldn't fault it, but not much else is going on here. We went into Maidstone and wondered around the shopping centre, then found something amazing! A restaurant called The Buddha Belly. All you can eat, Chinese, Indian, Thai, Mexican, Italian, Mediterranean buffet restaurant for just £8 a sitting. So for lunch I had Thai to start, Indian for mains, then finished off with pizza and garlic bread for desert. Totally amazing! Needless to say, we didn't eat for the rest of the day.

Kent is meant to be the 'Garden of England', and I'm not sure we saw it's true potential. I loved Canterbury, but I think I'd like to go back again and have another look around. We did only pass through Margate and Ramsgate, so maybe in a few years we return to see if there has been any changes.
We spent the weekend in ‘T'Big Smook’, in that there London town. And what a joyous weekend it was. Abbey Wood Caravan Park is a woodland oasis in the middle of a built up area of the inner city. Granted we were locked in at night with a twelve foot high electric fencing and camera's everywhere, but we did feel very safe! Public transport was frequent and easy to negotiate and we did a river cruise on the Thames and saw a lot of the major sights.

We also went to an olde worlde London style pub, which I love, because it just feels all lovely and cosy, like a real pub should look like. We then watched Lucy at the Empire Cinema at Leicester Square, which was a cracking film and I may blog about in my book and arts blog The Beyond However, I will say it was very thought provoking film, if not a little scary. Del seemed to think so! 

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