Kent Vacations, Kent Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

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.