WALKING THE KENT COAST | PART 1: DARTFORD TO GRAVESEND
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- IT HAS BEGUN! My epic project to walk (and at times wild camp) the entire Kent Coast, starting off with Dartford to Gravesend (roughly 13 miles I think). I completed this first section with Candice and we ended up walking half of it in the dark but it was great fun nonetheless and I cannot wait to do the next section, Gravesend to Rochester via the entire Hoo Peninsula (some 35 miles).
This is a classic Tom! Thank you for sharing all these years!👍👍👍😊
Hoping to do a few more sections of the Kent coast this year. It's LONG overdue!
Enjoying this one mate! Congratulations to Candice for walking further than i ever have (12 miles) secondly her care in the community work (bringing the old feller out with her) and lastly, double congrats for tolerating two whole years of him!ATB👍👍👍🎅🎅🎅🤗
haha she's older than me!
Well done Tom look forward to the entire route I will have to look out for you cheers
Love this stretch. Cheers for sharing Tom.
cheers pal.
Really enjoyed part 1, well done to you both, especially Candice with sore back and legs, will follow your with you.
cheers Lorraine, can't wait for the next section which I'm hoping your lovely son can join me on lol. He really took care of Matt on Saturday night, helped him with his tarp and when it collapsed at 3.30am in the storm, he even let him sleep under his own tarp with him. You've raised a fine human being there!
Thank you Tom, such kind words.
Great vlog tom. Takes me back to the late 80s. I used to tow barges as an apprentice lighter man up to the mill at the top of the creek loaded with grain and bring the empty barges back down in a tug called the charlight.
Fantastic video tom .... and candice I'm so proud of you sweetie you done amazing that was a long walk sending you a high five and a big hug xx keep up the fantastic videos tom x
Well done guys. And happy anniversary!
Cool. finished the Saxon shore way in September myself. Looking forward to watching your progress Tom.
Well done Candice...you are a trooper ! Congrats on your anniversary T & C :-)
Troopers both of you - that was a long walk especially in the dark-thanks for sharing this with us- BTW Happy anniversary 👏❤️😁xx
Nice one Tom shame the lovely Candice can not do the complete walk with you, Congrats on your anniversary
Well done chaps... and well done Candice.
Nice one you two, thanks for taking us along :)
Kudos to Candice, she looked knackered on the train. I wasn't aware Pocahontas visited the UK. It's been many years since a woman hovered over me I'll tell yer. Shame it's a statue, or I'd have paid her a visit lol. Nice educational trip, I enjoyed it thanks to you both.
When's part two? Lookijng forward to seeing the terrain of my home area
doing it in early April.
Good luck Tom and Candice (for some of the way), hope you make it, looking forward to the rest of the series.
The iconic little brook power station chimney will be blown up on December fifteenth A landmark for many years
i wondered when, thats this sunday! do we know what time? i'd like to see that but i might be driving back from suffolk or at work then :(
You will probably get the time on Kent online news
I have checked it myself and it is timed for eight o'clock in the morn
I'm looking forward to walking the marshes tomorrow from Dartford to Greenhithe
Best of luck mate and enjoy.
Scary stuff 😳 well you two! 👍🏻
Well done both of you X Probably looked better in the dark, the lights along the water looked really nice X In some nicer areas and earlier you could have stopped a bit more for a brew up X Glad Candice is ok maybe some new walking shoes could help and carry less on your back on just a walk X Take Care of each other and Stay Safe X
Nice blog really enjoyed it. I do know that euro Disney was originally gonna be built at Rainham marshes but they couldn't because of protected wildlife.
Nice one guys. That's a hefty walk and a half. How long do you think to complete? Atb James
this took us about 7 hours and we only stopped once and that was for about 15 mins to eat. unsure overall ETA, i reckon 2 weeks max if you walked everyday. cheers.
typo on my last message, meant to type "will follow your JOURNEY with you"
Well done Candice 👍👍👍👍
Well done Candice. You hung in there.
Places always look different at night
2:18 Sloe Berries for Gin, i pick mine from Erith side
Hi Tom. Congratulations to you and Candice for completing the first part of your walk, and respect for walking through Northfleet at that time of night! Two innocents abroad!
You mentioned that you would like to do a history of Gravesend vlog as part of this Kent Coast Walk project. If you want a better source than the official, Gravesham Borough Council handouts, including some of the murkier background stories, then I would recommend getting in touch with Christoph Bull. He is a local historian and does walks and talks all over North West Kent, from Dartford to the Hoo Peninsula. He has got endless anecdotes about Gravesend and the riverside along which you will be walking - without a doubt better than any guidebook.
Anyway, I was chatting to him a couple of days ago and mentioned your epic journey. He would be happy if you wanted to drop him an email for a chat about the local history. This is his website: www.christophbull.co.uk/
We will enjoy following your adventures into 2020.
Happy New Year!
thanks mate, i will check out his website and contact him. i'm thinking of doing the Gravesend video this weekend. Happy New Year!
Good luck with the weekend. Wondered if the Tilbury / Gravesend ferry would save you the train or car journeys to get over here?
thinking of doing it as a dramatic opener lol. arrive by boat lol.
Good idea!
Not only the drama of salty sailor Tom, making landfall and rolling ashore after his voyages on the briny deep, but also some great long shots of places that you could be visiting later.
General Gordon's fort; St George's church, with the Pocahontas statue where you finished the first leg of your walk; Windmill Hill, from which you can see deep into Essex; the red LV21 lightship; the Clarendon Hotel, where I believe a scene from Eastenders with Dot Cotton was filmed; and the Trinty House/Port of London Authroity building and pier from which the dock and river pilots go out to guide the big container ships up and down the Thames.
It'll be a great video!
Gravesend to Rochester?! - overnighter i presume?... plot says 38 jeffing miles!
i've mapped my own route that is more than just the SSW, so that we get to visit Isle of Grain too. probably 2 nights.
If im honest tom its a bit blair witch this one maybe you need to set off earlier in the day top marks to candice absolute trooper for seeing it to the end
i don't mind walking in the dark tbh mate, we had bright enough headtorches, something different from walking in the daylight anyway. she didn't have much choice tbh! lol.
Maybe we like to sleep in at the weekends! 🙂