The warmer
weather has seen a return to the family picnic. One of our favourite picnic
spots is Reculver in Kent, where we recently enjoyed another lovely trip. For
those of you not familiar with Reculver, it’s on the North Kent coast and is the
site of a former Roman fort, still boasting the ruin of a 12th
century church. The area is also a country park with small visitor centre and
has a beach complete with rock pools. Car parking is a bargain, at 20p per hour
or £1 for the day! However, the car park is not that big, sometimes resulting
in queues. Despite that it’s a great place to visit.
Of course,
a picnic isn’t complete without the food, for which I turn to the Tesco picnic
range for additions to the usual home-filled rolls and healthy fruit. Their
tubs of picnic goodies can be bought on a two for £3 deal, and include pasties,
cheese onion rolls, pizza pockets and our new favourite, mini chicken kievs.
Until last
year we owned a static caravan, which we kept on an independent site on the Norfolk/Suffolk
border. However, following our rural move, we decided to sell up and just in
the nick of time it now emerges! When we’d first bought our caravan we’d kept
it on a Park Holidays site in Kent, but due to astronomic charges and appalling
service, we moved to an independent site – Broadland Sands. Now I’ve heard this
once lovely caravan park has been taken over by, you’ve guessed it, Park
Holidays – a company that I do not recommend. If we hadn’t already removed our
caravan from the site, we would now!
In light of
that last revelation, you may like to read Static
Caravans Can Move and Static
Caravan Update
Finally,
having had a couple of years break from English Heritage, we’ve just rejoined
using Tesco vouchers. For £30 worth of vouchers, we’ve been able to take out a
year’s joint membership (includes up to six children under 19 free), which is
great value considering the number of places we can now visit at no extra cost.
It’s a great use of Tesco Clubcard vouchers!
How did
June work out for you?
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