Sunday, May 17, 2015

Whoops! Wrong town.

We have given thanks repeatedly for our GPS. Bill said if he wasn't so busy dodging cars on the skinny roads, he'd grab it and give it a hug! As a result, we have had no trouble making our way through back woods of the beautiful county of Kent. Until this afternoon. And the GPS was right of course. We just had a booking at a hotel in Ramsgate, not Canterbury. Only a 20 kilometre mistake but  it didn't occur to us until our GPS told us to take the second exit off a roundabout when the sign clearly pointed out that, in order to go to Canterbury, we needed to exit on the third. Since I had a detailed map on my lap and used a certain tone, Bill found a place to pull over (not easy - the hedges are unforgiving). Sure enough, the address of the hotel which had been booked and paid for online, was not in the outskirts of Canterbury after all.
Soooo I have loads of time to write blog entries with good internet access and not that much to see in the port town of Ramsgate. If we wanted to take a boat to Belgium, we'd be in the right place! We're heading out later for a walk on the sea shore and might even see some white cliffs. I hear they have a nice church too....

Later:
No cathedral but an abandoned old stone church on High Street. Fish and chips! And a nice walk on the cliffs before the sun went down.

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