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Folkestone Literary Festival Brochure - OUT NOW!

Folkestone Literary Festival 2008 - 1st to 9th NovemberIf you haven't managed to check out the programme for this year's festival online you'll be pleased to know that the brochures are now available in many locations around Folkestone and the surrou...

AF&RM CAMRA says Gate 28 is reopening as a pizza restaurant

Not sure if that info is more up to date than what I read on Facebook. This is from the September issue of Marsh Mash, the newsletter of Ashford, Folkestone and Romney Marsh branch of CAMRA: The bad news, The Fox Willesborough was firmly closed when ...

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What's on here and across the Channel?

Well someone just emailed to suggest picking up a copy of "Coast To Coast" magazine (does it have Fred Dinenage and Fern Britten on the cover?) but you can also see what's going on the homepage of the Gerald...MORE than sixty summer festivals and eve...

Mothers day update from The George in Rye

Mothers Day is nearly here. If you haven't sorted anything out yet, fear not: we're hosting a Mothering Sunday Lunch at The George in Rye.Your mum will feel like royalty and you can all enjoy a lovely menu from our head chef Rod, full of the promises...

Reporting from the Lake District (being the fourth part of my two week holiday write up)

More photos up now, but here's a bit of video we did.We were originally going to go for a proper cottage for our stay in the Lake District, but I'm so glad we settled on the apartment in Keswick we originally went for. It was nice, all the mod cons, ...

Live music - Ricky Fontayne

Great night of rock n roll Ricky Fontayne was superb a great vocal talet and food was top quality.Cant wait to see The Ricky Fontayne Show again.Thank you Rose and Crown in Old Romney

Folkestone - seventh best holiday resort in the UK

From the Guardian:Sam Hill, spokeswoman for the Camping and Caravanning Club, which has an amazing 400,000 members in the UK (most of them stuck in front of me on the motorway), recommends Folkestone and the Kent coast. "It's gorgeous," she says. "Th...

Michael Howard and the polar bear

Excellent, wind farm protesters dressed as polar bears... was it the Super Furry Animals? Or maybe Dom Jolly?Romney Marsh is the perfect place for something like this, it's a big desolate wasteland, and I don't live there....

Big weekend then

Managed to fit quite a lot in the weekend, we completed on the flat so went round there and sort of wandered about in the vastness of it, there's no furniture in it yet. Saturday we went to Gate 28 friends and family, and sorted out the minor detail ...

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The Ship

Had a dreadful dinner at a pub on the way to Dungeness, The Ship in Romney Marsh. It wasn't meant to be a high-falutin' fancy gourmet extravaganza, but it was meant to fill a gap, and it failed in this meagre task.Maybe they were busy, so we could le...
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Dungeness

Apart from Chambers Beer Festival and Kapetan Michales (reviewed and to be reviewed on Folkestone RestauRANTS, this weekend I also enjoyed a walk from Folkestone to Hythe via Sandgate, mostly along the sea front, there's something you don't get in St...