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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.
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.
Tags:
- deal,
- dover,
- expotitions,
- grrr
I had a pretty good day at the seaside -
Train down to Dover at 10.30 (nearly screwed trying to buy Grauniad but gave up and went to platform as train came) and did a circuit of Hooked on Books (three books at 50p; wanted to buy a couple of Tennants and a Rebus but £2.99) and the chairity shops. Didn't get to the outlet and the size of the queue in Woollies stopped any purchases. Had some Kentucky Fried Chicken which was naughty but can't otherwise be done this side of Ashford (or Folkestone or Ramsgate or Margate).
Train onto to Deal - and I nearly lost Deal itself as the town centre is not signposted. I feel I lost a couple of chairity shops and maybe another second hand shop, but then there's one on Middle Street I haven't found. Talked myself into the market - four books at 50p - and have his card as he has inherited a large pile of sf at 50p a book. I had time for a 99 and sat looking at the beach.
Back home via Sainsbury's and Dover, and bus to the Carbuncle. Couple of hours reading/scribbling on 50 Key Figures introduction and discover forthcoming gigs of Mark Watson (which I've seen twice - the warm up and the Edinburgh versions), Count Arthur Strong (mixed feelings - he is comedy genius or bloody annoying) and Clive James (a legend). Then Rich Hall as support to Otis Lee Crenshaw, of which, more.
At busstop: young people, semi-drunk, discussing last night:
"I was really drunk."
"Yes, you were shouting at him, and then you got out your laptop."
You what? Did he log on to Facebook and stick his vampires on the other guy's werewolves?
Back to my local, where the Welcome Home Stoney party I'd forgotten was still in full swing and threatening to degenerate into, well, something. D. didn't have the DVD I'd lent NW and NW had lent him, despite a texted reminder. Heigho.
Train down to Dover at 10.30 (nearly screwed trying to buy Grauniad but gave up and went to platform as train came) and did a circuit of Hooked on Books (three books at 50p; wanted to buy a couple of Tennants and a Rebus but £2.99) and the chairity shops. Didn't get to the outlet and the size of the queue in Woollies stopped any purchases. Had some Kentucky Fried Chicken which was naughty but can't otherwise be done this side of Ashford (or Folkestone or Ramsgate or Margate).
Train onto to Deal - and I nearly lost Deal itself as the town centre is not signposted. I feel I lost a couple of chairity shops and maybe another second hand shop, but then there's one on Middle Street I haven't found. Talked myself into the market - four books at 50p - and have his card as he has inherited a large pile of sf at 50p a book. I had time for a 99 and sat looking at the beach.
Back home via Sainsbury's and Dover, and bus to the Carbuncle. Couple of hours reading/scribbling on 50 Key Figures introduction and discover forthcoming gigs of Mark Watson (which I've seen twice - the warm up and the Edinburgh versions), Count Arthur Strong (mixed feelings - he is comedy genius or bloody annoying) and Clive James (a legend). Then Rich Hall as support to Otis Lee Crenshaw, of which, more.
At busstop: young people, semi-drunk, discussing last night:
"I was really drunk."
"Yes, you were shouting at him, and then you got out your laptop."
You what? Did he log on to Facebook and stick his vampires on the other guy's werewolves?
Back to my local, where the Welcome Home Stoney party I'd forgotten was still in full swing and threatening to degenerate into, well, something. D. didn't have the DVD I'd lent NW and NW had lent him, despite a texted reminder. Heigho.
Tags:
- deal,
- dover,
- doves,
- editing,
- expotitions
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