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ng fireplace medieval and georgian tunnels and those world war ii tunnels the dunkirk evacuation was planned here so you pretty much get the full span of british history all in one compact spot oh and the view is spectacular it was clear enough to see france when i was up there the rest of dover though was bombed heavily during the war and replaced with cruddy 50s and 60s architecture with only an okay seafront to try to salvage it i am very glad i didn t make it my base as much as i enjoyed the castle chilham i watch a lot of jane austen adaptations by a lot i mean pretty much all of them i found this place because it was where the bbc s adaptation of emma was filmed i do this now if i see somewhere neat in a movie or tv show i track it down and add it to my list of places i might want to visit it is an eight minute train ride from canterbury and seriously one of the cutest villages i have ever seen right up there with castle coombe and rye i also had the best meal of my trip here at the woolpack inn mussels even better than those i had in belgium and slow cooked pork belly another shepherd neame pub these pubs thankfully seem to have full independence over their menus and yet they all stock the same delicious beer which is a real win in my book i highly recommend working this in to anyone including canterbury in their itinerary it s got much better proximity to the train than the cotswolds come out as i did in the early evening when the sun is starting to set on the lovely old buildings have a walk around and then a delicious dinner sandwich this was a means to an end as the closest train station to richborough below i was not expecting to like it so much although i did consider eating a sandwich here just so i could say i did it turned out to be quite historic and cute though i wouldn t seek it out as a destination but it did surprise me richborough i came here for the roman fort which is one of the larger roman sites in britain it s a two mile walk from the sandwich train station and there are worse ways to spend a hazy morning than walking along a little country road sided with wild blueberry and blackberry bushes was it worth the walk probably only if you are really into the romans of all the roman related sites in britain i ve visited bath is still the most extensive and intact and in the same town as so many other lovely things deal it s not lyme regis but it was easily the prettiest seaside town i visited on this trip i came here after the roman fort four mile round trip walk and was very pleasantly surprised by it and suddenly felt very compelled to sit by the seaside and drink ale and eat fish and chips when one is seized by such a compulsion it s best just to go with it so i did and it was indeed quite enjoyable yes that s a shepherd neame pub there afterwards i had a little walk around deal castle which was built by henry viii after dover castle i probably could have skipped this one but i had purchased an english heritage overseas visitor pass so i was cool with a quick little walk around since i wasn t paying separately for it i don t usually go for the passes but this one was actually fantastic and probably paid for itself two if not three times over on this trip whitstable this was the closest to a working fishing town i visited while i was there so i had high expectations for the seafood that were not quite met the whitstable bay oysters are impressive but they were actually so large they were some of the first oysters i ve ever had to send all the way down the hatch without any chewing although side note despite consuming tons of seafood on this trip it was almost invariably crazy fresh so i had zero food poisoning yay i did have a half pint of spitfire in a friendly little pub though so i will say the people there are nice london london is london and i ve covered it pretty extensively in previous posts in other years i will note the two major new things i had on my itinerary this time though i went horseback riding in hyde park and en route to the stables passed this highly moving animals in war memorial it was very fun although as someone who rode for 10 years my legs hurt for days after an hour of trying to ride the way i used to i also attended the world premiere of the blitz requiem at st paul s cathedral the requiem itself was moving but the most beautiful segment was ralph vaughan williams s fantasia on a theme by thomas tallis preceded by how shall i sing that majesty which was set to the original tallis hymn independent of location it was stunningly beautiful in that cathedral with its epic reverberation it was something i ll never forget to hear how the music swelled to fill the space i also had a chance to meet up with some friends while there and to check out the twinings shop which somehow i ve never been to but now i certainly will be going back posted by carrie g at 20 26 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 6 26 2013 my scone recipe i made scones the other day to bring into work and had another request from a co worker to share my scone recipe since i have it typed up nicely now i thought i would share this is adapted from old fashioned english lavender tea scones and the result of many rounds of experimentation carrie s scone recipe makes 16 18 scones 3 1 3 cups flour 2 tablespoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 7 tablespoons butter i use salted irish kerrygold 2 tablespoons natural cane sugar 1 1 3 cups milk 1 egg beaten with a little milk 1 teaspoon vanilla for sweet scones only additional ingredients to mix in e g blueberries cranberries and orange zest chocolate chips and walnuts cheddar cheese and old bay cheddar jack cheese and green chiles 1 cut up the butter into cubes and place it in the freezer 2 pre heat the oven to 450 f 3 sift the flour baking powder and salt together 4 stir in the sugar 5 remove the butter from the freezer and rub it into the mixture breaking it up with your fingers until it resembles coarse crumbs be careful not to overwork the butter 6 make a well in the flour pour in the milk and vanilla if using and mix to a soft doughy texture add a little milk or flour if the mixture is too dry or too moist and again be careful not to overwork the dough particularly if you are mixing in other ingredients 7 mix in any additional ingredients continue loading in the ingredients until the dough is as full as possible 8 roll out dough on a floured surface and use a round cutter to cut out the scones placing them on parchment paper on a baking tray 9 brush the scones with the egg and milk mixture so that they are covered 10 bake in the oven for 7 10 minutes until they rise and are slightly browned then let them cool for 5 10 minutes on the tray place them on a cooling rack cream whey the leftover liquid from making clotted cream can be substituted for the milk use 1 1 2 cups if doing this posted by carrie g at 19 59 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 10 15 2012 my itinerary kicked ass you guys so in the way that i usually do things with this blog after extensive neglect i am going to post again because i just got back from a big trip this time it was 19 days and i traveled to germany where the usual crew and i shared a house and also and i m sure this will come as a shock if you read this blog at all england okay yeah not so much a shock but i realized something after last year s paris visit and it s that i really really tend to prefer traveling in great britain to anywhere else i ve been so far there s so much i love about it the history the literature the scenery the architectural eye candy and not least of all the cask ale and while i enjoy traveling to new places until such time as a new place steals my heart more i came to realize it needs to share a hefty portion of my itineraries especially as there are so many places in england wales and scotland that i want to visit so this year i decided i d devote a large number of days to england and moreover i would stop hopping around willy nilly from place to place that caught my attention and instead assume that i will be coming back many times in the future as a result i focused my time outside of london in the southwest coast in lovely hampshire and even lovelier dorset everyone has been asking me since i ve been back what my favorite part of the trip is impossible i can barely choose a favorite thing from each place i went to and i went to quite a few places so i m just going to share my whole itinerary because it really did kick ass and highlights from each place 3 nights london after i decided to have a hefty dose of england itinerary it was logical to fly into london and since my friend matt hadn t been there yet but had been wanting to go i invited him to join in we took a redeye out wednesday night landed thursday morning and commenced the jet lag death march i introduced matt to cask ale and also learned that after two pints i don t really mind being on the london eye even though i m quite afraid of heights september turned out to be a good time to visit as things that aren t normally accessible were open for visitors we took the opportunity to tour buckingham palace i sarcastically said there wasn t enough gold leaf and after that there was even more gold leaf in each room we viewed we also managed to fit in the cabinet war rooms westminster abbey the tate modern a whole lot of shopping and quite a few more pints palace of westminster from the london eye full london set 1 night city night line sleeper train i am not a fan of flying and if there is a reasonable train option am usually going to go for that particularly in europe where a sleeper train saves a night of hotel cost and gets you there while you sleep so as soon as i found out there was a paris munich sleeper train i knew it was the option i was probably going to go for that meant a trip through the chunnel on the eurostar and a brief layover in paris the sleeper itself wasn t the greatest night s sleep i ve ever had it seemed like it was either hauling ass or stopped the entire night but it was a good length of time at 11 hours to be on a sleeper and i arrived in munich reasonably well rested matt had stayed over in paris to visit a friend there so i was a little nervous about making my way in a new city with a new language by myself but i needn t have worried i felt very comfortable traveling around munich although the city was clearly packed for oktoberfest paris gare de l est a little sleeper paris set 1 night munich when i had a brief outline of my itinerary set back in february i decided to book a cancellable hotel room for this night just to ensure i had something i m glad i did as many hotels were sold out and the one i chose started to enforce a two night minimum stay closer to fall it was close to the train station so i dropped my bag off and then went back to the train station to go to dachau going to dachau was one of those things that i knew wouldn t be an enjoyable experience but it was something i felt like i both wanted and needed to do while i was in munich there were points while i was there when i felt physically nauseous and it gave me an uneasy perspective on the startling lack of diversity in munich and bavaria particularly noticeable after coming from london but still i m glad i went dachau took up the entire morning and after taking the s bahn back into the city i had no desire to go to any other museums so i spent the afternoon walking around exploring the city and taking pictures i even managed to time it so that i was at the marienplatz when the glockenspiel went through its paces dachau full dachau set marienplatz in munich full munich set 4 nights garmisch partenkirchen ace house finder meghan was extremely wise this time to find us a place outside of munich to stay yeah we wanted to do the whole oktoberfest experience but the city was not only crowded but crowded with generally drunk people so she found a place in this bavarian town where we could take the train in to the city for our beer tent reservation but otherwise enjoy peace and quiet at the base of the alps oktoberfest was every bit as much beer filled fun as you d expect it to be and operated on a much larger scale than i d realized the beer tent we were in the hofbrau tent was just one of twenty some tents that held thousands each and beyond the tents there were food stands carnival rides you name it and thanks to the germans beer purity law i was not hungover the next day despite measuring beer consumption in liters aside from the day we spent went to munich for oktoberfest we spent the rest of our time in the town which truly was this perfect little picture postcard bavarian town we hiked the beautiful partnach gorge on one day and took a train and then cable car to the top of the zugspitze the tallest mountain in germany the latter perhaps wasn t the best idea for someone who needed two pints just to go on the london eye but for some reason i thought i would be alright i wasn t the area at the top of the mountain was much more perched on the top of the mountain than i d expected i went nowhere near the edge yeah that s me standing on a table full oktoberfest set with the lovely and windblown meghan and kristen on the top of the zugspitze full garmisch set no shortage of mountains and twee bavarian buildings full garmisch set 1 night city night line sleeper train although we had the house in garmisch for five nights i began to realize that if i took day trains back to england i d basically spend an entire day on trains so i left the evening of the last night and repeated the sleeper eurostar trip i thought there were going to be some issues with this leg as the sleeper left munich two hours late due to a brake problem in one of the cars and i had less than two hours to make my transfer and get checked in for the eurostar you have to go through security and passport control before boarding the eurostar so i was seriously concerned that i was going to miss my scheduled eurostar and have to buy a very expensive day of ticket for a later train but as it turned out the train made up all the lost time and i actually slept better on this leg despite my worry over the delay the sleeper must really slow things down in order to give you enough time to settle in and sleep and nicely enough this gave them a cushion oh and by the way munich train station on a friday night total shit show drunk people running to catch their trains even drunker people in lederhosen propped up by their buddies one of said buddies still drinking a beer with his free arm ambulances driving through the station and most disturbingly a young child with an inflatable beer balloon it was some serious people watching 3 nights portsmouth conventional wisdom holds that when traveling in southern england you should base in london and take day trips and london is very much a giant hub in the 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