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Part Three. Rambling Through the Gardens & Estates of Kent, England.

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Nan Quick

February 2014. On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 my meanderings through Kent continued, as I was led by extraordinary Blue Badge Guide Amanda Hutchinson ( www.southeasttourguides.co.uk ), and expertly driven to our destinations by Steve Parry ( www.snccars.co.uk ) . By this, the third day of our travels, Amanda and Steve and I had settled into … Continue reading »

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Rambling Through the Gardens & Estates of Kent, England. Part One.

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Nan Quick

January 2014. As we in Northeastern America endure our most violently cold winter of the past 40 years, I’m finding it therapeutic to begin considering my August 2013 perambulations through Kent, the southeastern-most peninsula in England which is often—and accurately– called “The Garden of England.” I’d never been to Kent, and so it had behooved … Continue reading »

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