I don’t drive unfortunately but I do purchase cheap day tickets from Stagecoach that allow me to travel around East Kent and East Sussex freely. My personal faves are from where I live in Whitstable to Canterbury then I take a 1x to Ashford, a 2 via Tenterden to Hastings then a 100 or 101 to Rye, 102 to Folkestone via the coastal route then a 17 via Elham back to Canterbury then the Triangle back to Whitstable or I’ll do it the other way round with a few different permutations. That costs me a fiver for usually an 8 hour or so round trip and all I see is the beautiful Kent coast and countryside. I’ve only just discovered your channel and I’m loving the content and your very calm delivery. #Subbed. Also if you have a spare minute try filming the steam train journey’s between Tenterden and Bodiam and the Hythe to Dungeness steam railway… both very special! Have a great Jubilee weekend!
🙏 Thanks Lucieni. I think the rail journeys would be special; we must look into producing a couple of videos on those - there's something magical about steam. With our little road trips I do try to make them cycle & rail friendly, I need to look into the Stagecoach option too. Both our parents live in Beltinge, so not a million miles away from Whitstable, and Janis's parents love using the bus to get around. (I think that's their free bus pass though - they love a bargain) Anyway, back to the latest video, over in the wilds of west Kent. Take care, have a lovely Jubilee weekend yourself, and let's hope for a little bit of sun 🌞 Gary & Janis
Hi, Thanks for posting this. I have been through Romney Marsh on the train , coming back from rye. I love the expanse, the sense of going back in time. I do feel drawn to rural kent, I haven't really explored it, but want to.
Hi there, So glad you liked it - we have a fair bit of content from Romney Marshes and the surrounding area because we enjoy it so much. If you get the chance, go explore because it is a fascinating place. All the best, Gary & Janis
Thanks. it was like going home, we gave up the Marsh, having lived in Tenterden (another cinque port) Hamstreet and Smeeth, 34 years ago for the snowbelt of Canada in the middle of the Great Lakes. I happened upon on your road-trip as I'd just finished Malcolm Saville's The Gay Dolphin Affair, a 1945 children's adventure story which celebrates the Marsh, Rye and Winchelsea and its history of smuggling and the sea. As a boy I loved Patrick McGoohan"s starring role in The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. Next time you're in Winchelsea, you might look for Spike Milligan's grave, with the cryptic inscription ( in Latin) on the headstone, "I told you I was ill."
Hi, Sorry for the delay in responding; we returned from Germany and came down with a rather nasty cold that knocked us both out for a couple of days. So glad it provided a trip down memory lane; hopefully you have caught our video on Tenterden (th-cam.com/video/0hT95AjXwcM/w-d-xo.html), and you need to check out the one on Winchelsea, where we visited Spike's grave. (th-cam.com/video/ECaZ8RF5AIA/w-d-xo.html) There will be more to come in 2024 as we head back onto the roads around Kent and East Sussex. Thanks for taking the time to stop by and leave us a comment. Gary & Janis
Roger, another of those pubs that's been lost over time? I have had an idea, I might start another channel taking a look at pubs, breweries, vineyards, etc; focusing on the more unique places rather than the bigger chains. What do you think? I can think of a few on and around Romney Marshes that will be worth exploring - just need to get the idea past Janis. 😊
🙏 Thanks very much Ziggy, just a bit of rubbish on the lungs that causes the occasional coughing fit. head cleared up now so I can get on with our next video for Saturday.
Thank you for sharing this- I grew up in Wittersham on the isle of Oxney on the fringes of the marsh, and although I now live 'across the border' in East Sussex, I will always call the marsh and outlying areas Home
Hi Darren, Firstly so glad you liked the video; it's a wonderful corner of England to explore. Strangely enough, whilst researching my latest video on the churches of Romney Marsh, I got a little sidetracked and discovered Donald Sinden lived in Wittersham. Wittersham's also on the route for a little mini-road trip we have planned, linking up Rye, Rye Habour, Winchelsea & Tenterden. Hopefully, that should happen later this year. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment; we appreciate that. Take care, stay safe, stay well, Gary & Janis
@@OurWorldForYou you’re welcome, and in an interesting case of ‘it’s a small world’, Donald Sinden was known to my family- my late Gran used to clean for him a couple of days a week. I last saw him in 2003 at the Wittersham village fete, which he was opening. He said “programmes are 50p, except for Darren- they’re £5. He can afford it, he comes from Hastings!” A wonderful man, much loved and dearly missed. I look forward to seeing your video in the future, and thank you for taking the time to reply to my comment:)
Hi Darren, I always try to reply; it's the least we can do if somebody has taken the time to comment. Lovely to hear that Donald Sinden was nice in real life, and we love a village fete. Now, head down for part two of the journey. Gary (& Janis)
🙏 Thanks Anang, appreciate that 😍 There will be another video in the next couple of months, where we visit 14 of Romney Marshes most historic churches, and that will take us on another route. Take care, thanks again Janis & Gary
Jessica, pleased I pronounced Lympne correctly; it would have been embarrassing if I didn't. Also, I may have passed your home; we actually made a couple of trips around the area, so who knows. Thanks so much for the comment; I'm glad you liked what I put together. Stay safe, stay well - Gary
Dungeness is such a remarkable place - if you were dropped blindfolded and then allowed to look, you'd know where you were as it's so characteristic and different - yes, lovely. Quite wrong that they were allowed to build a nuclear power station next door - a totally insensitive development. There must have been loads of old industrial sites that would have done the job. But we must enjoy the enduring beauty of the buildings and people of Dungeness.
Hi Nigel, Yep, you'd know Dungeness anywhere - (Well, those of us who know it) As for the building of a Nuclear Power Station; I guess that was the world in the late '60s. Monstrosities in architecture, Britain still reeling from the costs of World War II, the loss of Empire, and an urge to be modern. I guess then a remote corner of Kent seemed a logical place. With the M20 motorway a distant thought that area must have been even more isolated. Still, that area will be cleared over the future decades.
Great video. Relaxing delivery and nicely edited. One fact: Maps of Hamstreet featured on a set of UK postage stamps to mark 200 years of the Ordnance Survey in 1991. I videoed the B2067 road to Lympne myself so if you fancy a slower journey.., I'm going to check out part 1 now 👍
🙏 Thanks Adam, sorry though I'd replied yesterday- but it seems to have been lost in the TH-cam ether. I checked out the stamps on Ham Street, still available on eBay 😉 We've another video planned for the Marshes, with a look around so of those magnificent churches. I hope you enjoyed part 1 - a very different part of the landscape. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to comment. Stay safe, stay well, Cheers Gary
I should warn you it may not be until Spring of 2022. It should be the best time to capture the landscape around the Churches too. It's all a matter of time, and the right weather.
How lovely Carol, wonderful that part of the world. Strangely enough, the video I am currently working on is the Churches of Romney Marsh and the one at Lydd features. It's massive for what is a relatively small community these days. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment, Gary & Janis
I don’t drive unfortunately but I do purchase cheap day tickets from Stagecoach that allow me to travel around East Kent and East Sussex freely. My personal faves are from where I live in Whitstable to Canterbury then I take a 1x to Ashford, a 2 via Tenterden to Hastings then a 100 or 101 to Rye, 102 to Folkestone via the coastal route then a 17 via Elham back to Canterbury then the Triangle back to Whitstable or I’ll do it the other way round with a few different permutations. That costs me a fiver for usually an 8 hour or so round trip and all I see is the beautiful Kent coast and countryside. I’ve only just discovered your channel and I’m loving the content and your very calm delivery. #Subbed. Also if you have a spare minute try filming the steam train journey’s between Tenterden and Bodiam and the Hythe to Dungeness steam railway… both very special! Have a great Jubilee weekend!
🙏 Thanks Lucieni. I think the rail journeys would be special; we must look into producing a couple of videos on those - there's something magical about steam.
With our little road trips I do try to make them cycle & rail friendly, I need to look into the Stagecoach option too.
Both our parents live in Beltinge, so not a million miles away from Whitstable, and Janis's parents love using the bus to get around. (I think that's their free bus pass though - they love a bargain)
Anyway, back to the latest video, over in the wilds of west Kent.
Take care, have a lovely Jubilee weekend yourself, and let's hope for a little bit of sun 🌞
Gary & Janis
Really interesting video very skilfully edited and a superb verbal delivery
Thanks Chris, that's very kind of you, so glad you enjoyed it.
All the best,
Gary & Janis
Hi, Thanks for posting this. I have been through Romney Marsh on the train , coming back from rye. I love the expanse, the sense of going back in time. I do feel drawn to rural kent, I haven't really explored it, but want to.
Hi there,
So glad you liked it - we have a fair bit of content from Romney Marshes and the surrounding area because we enjoy it so much. If you get the chance, go explore because it is a fascinating place.
All the best,
Gary & Janis
Thanks. it was like going home, we gave up the Marsh, having lived in Tenterden (another cinque port) Hamstreet and Smeeth, 34 years ago for the snowbelt of Canada in the middle of the Great Lakes. I happened upon on your road-trip as I'd just finished Malcolm Saville's The Gay Dolphin Affair, a 1945 children's adventure story which celebrates the Marsh, Rye and Winchelsea and its history of smuggling and the sea. As a boy I loved Patrick McGoohan"s starring role in The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. Next time you're in Winchelsea, you might look for Spike Milligan's grave, with the cryptic inscription ( in Latin) on the headstone, "I told you I was ill."
Hi,
Sorry for the delay in responding; we returned from Germany and came down with a rather nasty cold that knocked us both out for a couple of days.
So glad it provided a trip down memory lane; hopefully you have caught our video on Tenterden (th-cam.com/video/0hT95AjXwcM/w-d-xo.html), and you need to check out the one on Winchelsea, where we visited Spike's grave. (th-cam.com/video/ECaZ8RF5AIA/w-d-xo.html)
There will be more to come in 2024 as we head back onto the roads around Kent and East Sussex.
Thanks for taking the time to stop by and leave us a comment.
Gary & Janis
When you went through Court- at -Street the lane on the left is Harringe lane and there used to be a pub on the corner called the Wellcome Stranger.
Roger, another of those pubs that's been lost over time? I have had an idea, I might start another channel taking a look at pubs, breweries, vineyards, etc; focusing on the more unique places rather than the bigger chains. What do you think? I can think of a few on and around Romney Marshes that will be worth exploring - just need to get the idea past Janis. 😊
Very nice tour as always 🙂 Hope you're feeling better by now 🙂
🙏 Thanks very much Ziggy, just a bit of rubbish on the lungs that causes the occasional coughing fit. head cleared up now so I can get on with our next video for Saturday.
@@OurWorldForYou We had that for months, got shares in Fishermens Friends now 😄 Don't have anymore jabs, have a look at Dr John Campbell's channel 😲
Thank you for sharing this- I grew up in Wittersham on the isle of Oxney on the fringes of the marsh, and although I now live 'across the border' in East Sussex, I will always call the marsh and outlying areas Home
Hi Darren,
Firstly so glad you liked the video; it's a wonderful corner of England to explore.
Strangely enough, whilst researching my latest video on the churches of Romney Marsh, I got a little sidetracked and discovered Donald Sinden lived in Wittersham.
Wittersham's also on the route for a little mini-road trip we have planned, linking up Rye, Rye Habour, Winchelsea & Tenterden. Hopefully, that should happen later this year.
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment; we appreciate that.
Take care, stay safe, stay well,
Gary & Janis
@@OurWorldForYou you’re welcome, and in an interesting case of ‘it’s a small world’, Donald Sinden was known to my family- my late Gran used to clean for him a couple of days a week. I last saw him in 2003 at the Wittersham village fete, which he was opening. He said “programmes are 50p, except for Darren- they’re £5. He can afford it, he comes from Hastings!”
A wonderful man, much loved and dearly missed. I look forward to seeing your video in the future, and thank you for taking the time to reply to my comment:)
Hi Darren,
I always try to reply; it's the least we can do if somebody has taken the time to comment.
Lovely to hear that Donald Sinden was nice in real life, and we love a village fete.
Now, head down for part two of the journey.
Gary (& Janis)
very well captured, voiced over, and edited. I will go again on this exact trip ...!!
🙏 Thanks Anang, appreciate that 😍 There will be another video in the next couple of months, where we visit 14 of Romney Marshes most historic churches, and that will take us on another route.
Take care, thanks again Janis & Gary
Another great video, love Kent👍
🙏 Thanks Graham, we do too. We've a few more Kentish videos planned for 2022. Roll on those Sunny wintery days. 😍
Great vid showing off the best of the marsh. You went almost past my house but not quite. Yes you did pronounce Lympne correctly :)
Jessica, pleased I pronounced Lympne correctly; it would have been embarrassing if I didn't. Also, I may have passed your home; we actually made a couple of trips around the area, so who knows. Thanks so much for the comment; I'm glad you liked what I put together. Stay safe, stay well - Gary
Dungeness is such a remarkable place - if you were dropped blindfolded and then allowed to look, you'd know where you were as it's so characteristic and different - yes, lovely.
Quite wrong that they were allowed to build a nuclear power station next door - a totally insensitive development. There must have been loads of old industrial sites that would have done the job.
But we must enjoy the enduring beauty of the buildings and people of Dungeness.
Hi Nigel, Yep, you'd know Dungeness anywhere - (Well, those of us who know it)
As for the building of a Nuclear Power Station; I guess that was the world in the late '60s. Monstrosities in architecture, Britain still reeling from the costs of World War II, the loss of Empire, and an urge to be modern. I guess then a remote corner of Kent seemed a logical place. With the M20 motorway a distant thought that area must have been even more isolated. Still, that area will be cleared over the future decades.
Great video. Relaxing delivery and nicely edited. One fact: Maps of Hamstreet featured on a set of UK postage stamps to mark 200 years of the Ordnance Survey in 1991. I videoed the B2067 road to Lympne myself so if you fancy a slower journey.., I'm going to check out part 1 now 👍
🙏 Thanks Adam, sorry though I'd replied yesterday- but it seems to have been lost in the TH-cam ether.
I checked out the stamps on Ham Street, still available on eBay 😉
We've another video planned for the Marshes, with a look around so of those magnificent churches.
I hope you enjoyed part 1 - a very different part of the landscape.
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to comment.
Stay safe, stay well,
Cheers
Gary
@@OurWorldForYou Thank you. I'll look out for the Marsh churches video :-)
I should warn you it may not be until Spring of 2022. It should be the best time to capture the landscape around the Churches too. It's all a matter of time, and the right weather.
If you didn't catch part 1 - you can find it here - th-cam.com/video/whQuX0VGYc4/w-d-xo.html
My sister lived in lydd romney marsh kent.
How lovely Carol, wonderful that part of the world. Strangely enough, the video I am currently working on is the Churches of Romney Marsh and the one at Lydd features. It's massive for what is a relatively small community these days.
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment,
Gary & Janis
My wife came from lydd her mum was the church organist