Pastrami On Rye

Leaving Margate, my next stop was Ramsgate and Broadstairs - great names aren't they?  Unfortunately there is not a lot of parking in these areas for me to have gotten out of the car and taken photos, so I just admired everything as I drove through the towns at 10 miles per hour.  Everyone else was driving that slow - so win win!

Look at what these poor Brits have to call to beach.  It's pityful!

I did find this grand old building which was a good representation of the types of buildings that I passed - and it had a car park so I could stop!

My plan had always been to visit a town on the south east coast of English called Sandwich.  It was where the Earl of Sandwich, back in the day, invented the sandwich!

Legend has it he was too busy gambling to stop for a meal even though he was hungry, so he ordered the waiter to bring him roast beef in between two slices of bread so that he could continue gambling without getting the cards greasy!

Now I love a sandwich and after I had heard that there was a) a place called Sandwich and b) that it was the place where the sandwich was invented, I knew it was a place I wanted to visit.

Over the years, when I had lived in England and then again when I came back to visit, in the back of my mind I would think of a way to fit the journey there and back in with other itineraries, but alas nothing came to be until this trip when my dear friends Tanya & Nick decided to get married in East Sussex, which is virtually just around the corner.  

I was warned by some that Sandwich had nothing there except a massive chemical plant that manufactured Viagra!  But I was still determined to see it and claim my fridge magnet.

Past the chemical plant, here is the little town that I found.......

It was so ye oldy worldy.  I loved it.

I love when they use the old buildings for new uses rather than pulling things down.

This one little street had the most gorgeous tudor style buildings and houses.  It was like walking through the past and that's right up my street!  Hahahaha - Get it?

The town is on a little canal with flowing brown water.

And this little shed ⬇was offering cruises.  Bless them!

The streets were so tiny and the person in the white car made a rooky error by parking so close to the entrance of this particular street.  I stood and watched this massive Spar delivery truck inch his way through the tiny gap and well done to him, he made it without one scratch to either vehicle.

Another fantastic treat was that there was a town down the road called "Ham".  Honestly, you couldn't make this stuff up!