Heathrow Airport 1 hr 58
Pegwell Bay (15 min.) picturesque bay offering a nature reserve the ruins of a hoverport & a replica scandinavian boat. Viking Bay (6 min.) charles dickens used to holiday on this small sandy bay with a promenade & cabins. Margate Beach (11 min.) beach Deal Castle (31 min.) 16th-century artillery castle with huge circular bastions for cannons linked by network of passages. Powell-Cotton Museum (18 min.) 15th-century estate with museum of victorian natural history exhibits and regency house and gardens. Main Sands (11 min.) beach Botany Bay (10 min.) public beach with views of cliffs and chalk stacks plus fossil hunting rock pools and nearby cafe. Joss Bay (6 min.) 200-meter sandy cove featuring a surf school beach loungers a cafe & white chalk cliffs. Ramsgate (9 min) Shell Grotto (9 min.) ornate unexplained network of shell-lined passages and a mosaic chamber with shell shop and cafe. Pierremont Hall (4 min) Dumpton Park (5 min) Turner Contemporary (11 min.) dramatic spaces displaying art by jmw turner and contemporary artists in eye-catching gallery. Baptist Church (2 min) Stone Bay (15 min.) beach Walmer Castle And Gardens (34 min.) english heritage tudor castle often visited by the queen and queen mother plus gardens and tearoom Ramsgate Tunnels (9 min.) guided tours of the subterranean tunnel system used to shelter 60 000 people during wwii air raids. |