I NEED a Day Out

I need a day out.

Especially after this week, with four early starts and one heavy night.

I can't do Saturday, as I've an open day, so it does make it likely to be tomorrow.


I could do with a town with a loiterable coffee shop, because I do with some reading at the very least, even if I don't take my laptop. The Rochester-Chatham-Newnham has possibilities, but no suitable coffee shop, and Ashford, with several potential coffee shops, has been visited in the last three months or so. I don't have the energy for London, and anything beyond Hastings is out. I sort of fancy Tonbridge/Tunbridge, but don't have the energy to walk up the hill and it's may be a little far. I don't fancy Ramsgate.

So I figured Dover - with a Costa - and, maybe, briefly, Deal.

Except, whilst I can get directly to Dover, my station won't sell me a ticket to Deal - I have to go there via the other station, which is a twenty minute walk.

I can buy a ticket at Dover, but the interchange is four minutes and there's no time, then a wait for an hour for the next train.

Ah ha, I can buy a ticket online.

I spend twenty minutes wrestling with a Dover-Deal return as I can't remember my password, and then discover the password they send you is a password to get a password, not to access the site. Finally, I can get on the site.

The ticket is £4.80.

The minimum spend is £5.00.

But the webpage will sell me a ticket to Deal. Hopefully I am allowed to use it.

I need a day out. I really need a day out.