Weekend Break | TRAVEL
There are times when motorhoming allows a spontaneous, sneaky few days away without travelling too far. For us, living in East Sussex, a quick hop over the border into Kent gives a welcome change of scenery without clocking up the miles.
Kent is an interesting county. It is in the top 10 of the largest English counties and has a varied landscape, bordering Greater London in the northwest through to the coastal regions of Folkestone in the south, where France can be seen on a clear day, and where a visit to the Continent is only a short ferry or shuttle journey away.
Kent can barely be mentioned without the epithet ‘Garden of England' and, whilst it is indeed stunningly beautiful in many areas, with it being the fifth-most-populous county in England, that garden has a fair amount of hard landscaping in places, too! However, Bearsted, in mid-Kent, offers all the charms of the leafy Kentish countryside sporting its distinctive oast houses, together with the historic cities of Maidstone and Canterbury within easy striking distance.
For us, with our two border
