London Day Trip

For my comment on Sissinghurst, see my article at
http://softadventure.net/kent2000.htm

Harlan


"ncb" wrote in message
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| Keith Willshaw wrote:
| Personally I'd recommend picking up a hire car and
| visiting Bodiam Castle and Bateman's (Rudyard Kiplings
| House) as well and skip Hastings altogether.
|
| My newsreader doesn't show the beginning of this thread, so
| I don't know what time of year the OP is going - but if during
| the spring/summer/early autumn I'd recommend doing Bodiam +
| Sissinghurst (check the hours first, Sissinghurst used to
| open fairly late in the day, so see Bodiam first - they're about
| 1/2 hours drive away from each other.)
|
| I'd heard about Sissinghurst for years and thought it sounded like
| the most twee and boring place imaginable and then I saw it and
| fell in love with it, and have visited several times again since
| then - would go often but it's a 2-hour drive for me. Don't have to
| be a gardener or be even the tiniest bit interested in all the
| Bloomsbury Group crap to like it. But if you go, make sure to
| climb up to the tower and see the whole place from above. It's
| like RL Stevenson's 'land of counterpane'.
| --
| Nora