Kent

Exclusive guide to the best holiday destinations in Kent, independent reviews from award-winning travel writers

 Insider’s Guide to Margate. Discover trendy Kent’s new sensational Shoreditch.

07/01/2022 by .
In his Insider's Guide to Margate, locals may not like its nickname - Shoreditch-on-sea - but Michael Edwards finds there’s more than a grain of truth in the comparison. Margate harbour

In his Insider’s Guide to Margate, locals may not like its nickname – Shoreditch-on-sea – but Michael Edwards finds there’s more than a grain of truth in the comparison.

Read the full story here

National Trust Cream Teas At Sissinghurst Castle Garden. Indulgent cream teas amongst flora and fauna

01/07/2020 by .
Sissinghurst Castle Garden Sissinghurst the building e1593617760438

Anthea Gerrie enjoys the delights of a COVID-friendly cream tea amongst the flora and fauna of Sissinghurst Castle Garden.

Read the full story here

Driving the Kent Coast to Dungeness

20/01/2020 by .
BMW1 outside Derek Jarmans garden

The trouble with road-testing a nifty car in crowded England is the limited supply of empty highways on which to open it up.   Which is where the windswept eastern tip of England, where Kent meets Sussex and the intrepid and creative have settled amidst the desolate beauty of Dungeness, comes into its own.

Read the full story here

Glamping at Livingstone Lodge. Discover the Serengetti in beautiful Kent

25/09/2014 by .

Glamping at Elephant Lodge. Port Lympne Wild Animal Park

28/05/2014 by .
Port Lympne Wildlife Park 052

It is a little after 5pm and I am surrounded by giraffes. Not any old giraffes you understand, but Rothschild Giraffes no less, the tallest land animals on earth. Under the circumstances, you would be forgiven for thinking I am in the Serengeti, or the Maasai Mara perhaps, but you would be wrong, because this is Kent, the garden of England and I am having a ball glamping at Elephant Lodge in the Port Lympne Wild Animal Park

Read the full story here