Thursday 23 April 2015

Day off in Dover, a ramble.

Although we often visit Dover Castle, we haven’t done the Dover shops for years, we didn’t get very long because of getting back to Ramsgate by the time the school finishes.

I don’t know what I was expecting, but I guess something at least as bad as the closed shop situation in the Thanet towns, however as Dover Hasn’t had an out of town shopping centre built next to it, the big ones like M&S are still there.

I was very much aware of an air pollution problem, not sure if this was the industry in Northern France, the large amount of traffic, the ferries or all of these things mixed together, but it was noticeable and on a fairly windy day. You could certainly smell the ferry smell that we used to get in Ramsgate on calmb days, I would say a problem that needs investigating.

I had an issue with my phone camera, which I thought was settings, but turned out to be the lens needing cleaning so there are a lot of photos because I was trying to get rid of what looks like a haze around the buildings. 

Dover suffered badly from wartime bombing, the result, Victorian and Georgian buildings with a lot of postwar architecture is an interesting mix.



We ate at Dickens Corner Café, good clean with straightforward reasonably priced food and an interesting view from the first floor tables.   



The books I bought for my bookshop more than covering the costs.




































































4 comments:

  1. Sorry about that Don, the camera was playing up and i was too lazy to go through and delete the bad ones.

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  2. Wasn't a complaint just a statement of fact. I used to do a similar thing visiting the junk shops to pay for my day out. Miss those days.

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  3. I guess Don that I take much of my pleasure from looking at books, so wherever I go, charity shops, junk shops, bookshops, bootfairs, it’s the books I make for and the books I buy.

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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.