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I'm resurrecting this thread where last summer I went exploring local places at the suggestion of the thread. Info in the OP over there, go check it out, come back, and suggest a place! Unvisited suggestions carried over: Samphire Hoe, with bonus request to visit a geocache while there - Manifisto Wye Memorial Crown - Barking Gecko Conningbrook Lakes Country Park - Twenty Four "follow the dotted line coming from dover" - The Real Amethyst A chalk pit in Wye national nature reserve - Hugh Malone Molash - Bacon Taco Some mostly unexplored dene holes - twoday Backup dene holes - twoday A "Small Pilgrim Place" in Wychling - twoday Another "Small Pilgrim Place" - twoday The Denge Wood Earthworks - twoday An ancient tumulus in King’s Wood - twoday The Coppice Cloud Chamber, also in King's Wood - twoday Jaded Burnout fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Jul 29, 2019 |
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Jul 23, 2019 22:25
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I guess my suggestion from the old thread stands?
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Jul 23, 2019 23:02
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woot! "chalk pit" might not sound very interesting, but I bet it looks cool from ground level and there also appear to be some old foundations or stuff from an old chalk mine there I like old stuff |
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Jul 23, 2019 23:07
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Twenty Four posted:I guess my suggestion from the old thread stands? Yeah sorry I put it up there but forgot to add your name. |
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Jul 23, 2019 23:07
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here's an article about the pit, with directions for the easiest approach. also you can find brachiopod fossils there! https://ukfossils.co.uk/2012/01/24/wye-downs/ |
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Jul 23, 2019 23:10
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I loved that thread ty for reviving it
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Jul 23, 2019 23:12
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alnilam posted:I loved that thread ty for reviving it The summer draws me out, like a wurrum |
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Jul 23, 2019 23:12
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This makes me miss living in the You Kay and going on these kinds of explorings on my motorbike. I once rode to Sandwich (just above Worth on your map for other folk wondering) to see if I could actually get a sandwich, in Sandwich, and I was bitterly disappointed. So if you're up that way, maybe you can do better than I did (ie one of those sad triangle boxed sandwiches from a Tesco metro or something because it was Sunday afternoon and nothing was open and it seemed the locals couldn't give a drat about sandwiches). But failing that maybe you can go, I dunno, to Pett Bottom? Canterbury CT4 6EH, UK https://maps.app.goo.gl/Hm9FGm3uHZJwiD3k9 |
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Jul 24, 2019 01:11
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it is off your map but apparently not so far (google calls it 32 minutes from ashford), you could visit kit's coty house in aylesford I dunno, visiting a prehistoric barrow seems kinda cool also if you happen to like cheese I imagine you could find someplace that makes good cheese in the traditional manner, that would be worth a trip imo, check out the scenery and the browsing cows/sheep/etc to make sure they're happy the "great british cheese map" shows these cheeses in sort of your area-ish (spelling probably butchered, hard to read the handwriting): * saint giles * wealdway * lord london * lord of the hundreds * chabis * winterdale * smoked wedmore * scrumpy sussex * isle of avalon * wigmore * waterloo * spenwood * tornegus * olde sussex * sussex blue * flower marie * sussex crumble * golden cross * tunworth * ashdown foresters . . . and plenty more not that that far away. that's enough for at least a couple of monty python sketches.
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Jul 24, 2019 01:40
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Manifisto posted:* scrumpy sussex
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Jul 24, 2019 01:49
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woah, scrumpy is farm fresh alcoholic cider afaik. maybe there's apple in the chiz? |
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Jul 24, 2019 23:53
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it sounds like something willy wonka would make if he got into the booze game, which he totally should
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Jul 24, 2019 23:56
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alnilam posted:it sounds like something willy wonka would make if he got into the booze game, which he totally should whaddaya think Charlie and Grampa drank that got em high and gave em the hiccups 
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Jul 25, 2019 00:01
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*long burp* grandpa... Im fukken off me rear end m8. pissed. i love ya m8
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Jul 25, 2019 00:05
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Hugh Malone posted:woah, scrumpy is farm fresh alcoholic cider afaik. maybe there's apple in the chiz? nice factoid, I thought it was colloquial for "scrumptious." yes there's cider in it! as well as herbs and wild garlic. sounds really good imo, agree that jaded burnout needs to get some and post a trip report. drinking scrumpy along with the cheese seems obligatory. https://www.stamfordcheese.com/product/scrumpy-sussex-cheese/
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Jul 25, 2019 01:10
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Jaded Burnout posted:Conningbrook Lakes Country Park - Twenty Four Well this doesn't look good.  Oh no.   Well there is a lake..   But that's all you can see of it. The yuppies have moved in.        Not so good. Looks like it'll be navigable at some point, but I wouldn't put it past them to lock it off to residents.  This is the only lake you can access  Let's try another one then. Jaded Burnout posted:Molash - Bacon Taco Whoops, got a bit lost.  But getting lost can help you find nice things.   Right so back on the right track, the route to Molash takes me up a nice drive that I do from time to time, a hill climb past King's Wood.   Molash at last! Oh.  Well this is a bit nicer.     A nice chill before heading home. 
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Jul 30, 2019 14:10
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Bummer about the lake what a bunch of bullshit closing off a drat park  nice other pics tho!
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Jul 30, 2019 14:22
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alnilam posted:Bummer about the lake what a bunch of bullshit closing off a drat park The other half of it is I think a country club, so, yeah. |
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Jul 30, 2019 14:36
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alnilam posted:Bummer about the lake what a bunch of bullshit closing off a drat park seriously real estate developers should be murdered along with ad men and the police. crimes |
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Jul 30, 2019 15:33
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glad you're getting out, exploring and enjoying your holiday 
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Jul 30, 2019 15:40
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v nice pix, ty! |
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Jul 30, 2019 18:07
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Jaded Burnout posted:Well this doesn't look good. Dang man it wasn't like this on google maps when I looked it up the first time a year ago or whatever. It looked like all nice pictures and good times. The satellite image still looked the same. Sorry about that!
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Jul 31, 2019 00:54
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That's some good rear end journey!!
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Jul 31, 2019 02:24
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Twenty Four posted:Dang man it wasn't like this on google maps when I looked it up the first time a year ago or whatever. It looked like all nice pictures and good times. The satellite image still looked the same. Sorry about that! No worries, I looked at the same sat photos before setting off. "huh there's a quarry there". Nope I guess it was the early stages of building the houses. |
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Jul 31, 2019 06:06
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Jaded Burnout posted:No worries, I looked at the same sat photos before setting off. "huh there's a quarry there". Nope I guess it was the early stages of building the houses. I will try to find you something else, though it is not like you don't already have enough on your plate. Thank you though, I still enjoy your travels!
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Jul 31, 2019 15:59
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one day we will have a trip report from samphire hoe, and it will be glorious one day
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Aug 4, 2019 03:53
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Sorry for the bad destination choice! I'm just a silly Yank and I even think I was drunk when I typed that. My bad! |
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Aug 4, 2019 05:06
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Manifisto posted:one day we will have a trip report from samphire hoe, and it will be glorious  I didn't want to drive to Dover that day Bacon Taco posted:Sorry for the bad destination choice! I'm just a silly Yank and I even think I was drunk when I typed that. My bad! It's all good |
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