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Took a day trip out of London into Kent to see one of the most famous and loveliest castles in England - the Leeds Castle.  Standing on two islands on a lake, it was originally built in 857 AD as a Saxon manor and was later transformed into a Royal Palace in 1278 by King Edward I.  The castle has been home to six medieval English Queens as well as Henry VIII, and like with most castles, its original structure has been expanded throughout their reigns.  The Leeds Castle has come...

I definitely needed to do some sightseeing, so having a day off I went with my cousins Faye and her boy Johnny to Leeds Castle in Kent. Its a beautiful castle, hundreds of years old which has been restored many times. The grounds surrounding the castle are beautiful, lakes and ponds full of many species of ducks, geese, white and black swans! They also have magnificent aviaries which exist from the eighteenth century coz some rich lady loved birds. There's macaws, lorikeets, owls, parrots, ...

We travelled to England by train, from Calais. It only took us half an hour. Ones on British grounds the first thing to do was driving to the left side of the road. Since I wasn't the driver, that was ok. Then on top of the list was finding a pub and finding our hostel. The first was far more easy than the second! Our cottage wasn't at all what we expected. It was old, smelly and it had bugs living in it. It also had a shared swimming pool, yet one with water so dirty no one dared...

A day out to see the family home of Anne Boleyn, it is a beautiful house with stunning gardens.

Chelsea Flower Show and points of interest in London UK. Then on to day trips in surrounding area.

    Our check out time from the cottage was 10am, but our ferry wasn't until 2pm.  So, we had a bit of time to kill and not a terribly long drive to the boat.  So, we decided to try to locate the "Kit's Coty" which is just above Maidstone.  Kit's Coty is one of two pre-historic monoliths thought to be older than even Stonehenge.  Well, heck if we could find it!We even stopped for directions on the precise road but somehow ended up back on an on-ramp to the h...

From the highlands of Scotland to the port city of Liverpool and from the enchanting county of Kent to the suave capital city of London...

Today we drove to see Leeds castle, which is actually in Kent fantastic big castle, walked through the castles looking at all the rooms and memorobilia,some of the rooms are still in use, i think people can hire it out for weddings and such, wandered around the grounds, took the road train we stopped to watch the jousting which was good fun, they even got the kids in the audience into the ring to look at the weapons and pretend to be soldiers, they all seemed to be having a good time, then ...

Found great b&b hotel - King Street Hotel - through website called Let's Stay Kent, at http://www.staykent.co.uk. 5 Star and really friendly staff.  

I spent 2 weeks in the UK in September 2007 with my best friends, Lauren and Beth. We had been staying in Paris and when we decided to come over to England we needed to find accommodation. We found a great website which covers just Kent - Let's Stay Kent at http://www.staykent.co.uk - and found a hotel just outside of Canterbury. We did all the usual sites - cathedral was incredible as was the town itself, so many timbered houses! We moved on to Rochester for the 2nd week - found a b&b th...

A collection of my travels while living in the UK. The dates are slightly out of order, but the photos should tell the stories! There are also some snaps that I took visiting the states, and some from trips after I moved back to Arizona. All future trips will be seperate from this blog and I'll be sure to add some journal entries at some point.

Travelling around Kent in UK, visiting all the top tourist sites. Trying out different accommodation - some pre-booked, some not!