Pegwell Bay

It’s taking a long time but today we filled in a significant missing link in our ambition to walk the coastline of Kent and the Saxon Shoreway. https://www.ldwa.org.uk/ldp/members/show_path.php?path_name=Kent+Coastline+Walk

So far we have walked, over a time span of many years, from Swale to Ramsgate and from Sandwich to Dungeness. The missing link was the 8 mile stretch from Ramsgate to Sandwich a section we’d not been looking forward to as the route appeared to be partly along a busy main road.

A bit of research recently identified the existence of the Contra Trail https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/explore-kent-bucket/uploads/2015/02/17183833/active-ramsgate-ramsgate-to-pegwell-bay-contra-trail-walk.pdf linking Ramsgate with Sandwich. It did indeed follow the main road but it also followed the English Coastal Path and passed by Pegwell Bay which is a renown salt marsh nature reserve and the site of a long redundant Hovercraft port to France.

We parked at Sandwich taking the train to Ramsgate walking back to Sandwich after a sandwich lunch overlooking Ramsgate Harbour and a coffee and teacake in town. Apart from a shower as we left it was a grand day for walking. The cloudscapes over Pegwell Bay were fantastic.

We made it to Sandwich as the sunset, rewarded ourselves with a cup of tea at the No Name Bistro and Delicatessen where I also purchased some Gorgonzola, as you do.

Further reward was to be had at The Pilot in Dungeness http://thepilotdungeness.co.uk where we had this month’s ration of fish and chip. Come to think of it, I didn’t have any fish and chips in September!