Don't eat the oysters! | My trip to Whitstable, Kent 

Only thing missing was the rain!

Can't forget adding the spend a fortune to win a cheap soft toy out of the crane machines on the front!

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Ahh hope you have a great time!

And an ice cream for afters!

I’ve been out of the country for years too, and this channel is making me want to move back!

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You could tell Alanna was going somewhere different because the let’s go was with her other arm!

I was so very deeply troubled by everything prior to that.

Thing is every time I hear another RU-vidr say with out further ado I get disappointed when they don’t do the let’s go..

@@grumpyone5963 and the thumbnail?

I remember Days garage.He used to run a coach.And sold REGENT PETROL at the garage.

I remember that dog

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It's certainly changed from my idyllic childhood in S E London where like many people from that area we left our Council accommodation and spent all Summer at our Caravan in Seasalter next to Whitstable but it really was an Olde World High Street with all individual shops and certainly no Iceland or Charity Shops for better or worse and they had the Annual Carnival where the streets were packed. Seems a different world from those 1960s and a lifetime away. :)

@@Isleofskye You're right that the nature of the shops have totally changed but luckily not so many of the actual buildings are that new, at least not in Alanna's shots. Don't get me started on caravan holidays - the only affordable way to get a holiday until I was about 10 years old!

My Parents were the 3rd Caravan on a site called "Waldens" on the Seafront between Seasalter and Graveney/Faversham after the War. They used to go Hop Picking like many working-class Londoners. Our next site was a massive field with it's own Pub and only 12 caravans ( It now had 70 Mobile Homes) and Lady made Toffee Apples all day and it was next to the woods. Then we were the 3rd and 4th on a brand new site just 2 miles from Whitstable and our 2 caravans had a large area in the corner. Nowadays they are all crammed together. It was a 6 Berth with no water but it did not matter and we were there every weekend from the end of May, weather permitting and all 7 weeks of the summer school holidays (Dad only had 2 weeks and joined us then ). It was idyllic with Radio Caroline on but we had to come off in 1970 as they wanted us to get a newer caravan. 51 years on and I only live 45 minutes drive away in Bexley and I would have loved to have had a little bolthole there because although I have flown around 34 times, I hate it. :)

@@Isleofskye I can, as a local (my dads side of family has lived in faversham since time immemorial while my mums side in Kent generally since 1920s) tell you that many shops in whitstable are independent shops but they are a bit posh and tend to cater to posh people coming from London :)

Firstly T T is time immemorial before the year dot, so I can get a timescale on things? :) Do you know these caravan sites that we used to stay on, my friend? Post War: " Wardens of Seasalter" near The Sportsman Pub. THen from The Mid 1950's "The Four Horseshoes" in Graveney and then "The Applegarth " at Seasalter Lane from 1062-1970 ? Wonderfully, idyllic days :)

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Agreed. I was surprised to see them being sold. Maybe the import them in the summer months?

Excellent, honest food review.👍

I thought the "R" in the month rule was to do with their breeding season

Used to love Oysters, still do but unaffordable mostly now thanks to the increased export of them, forcing up the price on the home market of our native ones.

@@tonys1636 I don't think I could eat an oyster if you paid me! They look so revolting

I think the big signs on the platform with the name of the town kind of give the game away though.

Erm......yeah.......it might just dent the mystique a little bit. Didn't think of that. Hahaha.

The only one that was visible was that of Whitstable, the departure station remains anonymous to most. Very strange to see an almost empty train in the Southeast instead of the crowded standing room only (if lucky).

@@tonys1636 You wouldn't make a good stalker. Which is not a bad thing!

@@LiamE69 The only thing I have ever stalked is Deer, the shooting was on target and clean but I was a bit noisy through the undergrowth at times. The new PO box is somewhat of a give away.

It's certainly changed from my idyllic childhood in S E London where like many people from that area we left our Council accommodation and spent all Summer at our Caravan in Seasalter next to Whitstable but it really was an Olde World High Street with all individual shops and certainly no Iceland or Charity Shops for better or worse and they had the Annual Carnival where the streets were packed. Seems a different world from those 1960s and a lifetime away. :)

That’s right, I’d heard that before, couldn’t remember which way round it was though.

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Next time!

Yeah lol

A great one!

I love their ruby ale too

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I Do aswel Mathew, look forward too Alanna every Tuesday

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O dear! another one telling someone their area is better!

@@dinerouk piss off Pete

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Me too, only once! Tasted like a seawater flavoured raw egg white. I didn't realise they were actually alive when you ate them!

Cute!

Still dangerous to walk off the roads as old live mines in the area surrounding the village and MOD property, permission has to be granted to enter. Which the Bus rally has.

See comedy duo 'Rob & Romesh vs Golf' on RU-vid. They get to wear all the drag gear, train to perform & be part of a show at Brighton - insightful and very entertaining

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Sounds wonderful! I've been to Broadstairs and Folkestone (I think) but it's been so long!

And Westgate-on-Sea - 2 bays, one of the best cinemas in the Country and the best pub in the World (The Bake & Alehouse).

I know what you mean. Brings back so many memories from my childhood. Most weekends in the summer we spent at Sandwich bay. I still have family living in Ramsgate,Dover and Whitsable although I now live in the Midlands.

You're totally right!

Your not quite right about not being far from the beach. However, I live in middle England and it’s midway between Cardiff and Gt Yarmouth, both take 2 hrs 50mins traffic permitting. It take 3 plus hours to get to Whitstable.

@@grahamsibbert2412 Going roughly from where I estimate you live, there are beaches closer to you than the ones you mention. King's Lynn for one, possibly Clacton too but I'm not so sure on that one. I live a little north of you in middle England and it's only two hours to Skegness. I suspect that might also be closer for you but obviously it depends on your exact location, which I don't expect you to divulge. The furthest settlement from a UK coast is fairly closely to my location. That's 70 miles from a coast. I'll give you that coast doesn't always equal beach but a beach isn't going to be far away. Even so, none of the times/distances mentioned are that far when compared to some other countries, especially Alanna's origin of Canada. :-)

@@grahamsibbert2412 I have read that there is nowhere in England that is more than 80 miles from the sea. Whether it takes 5 hours or 2 is relevant but consider for some, the seaside could be thousands of miles away & they never experience it in their lives !

Elwaves. You really need to check your maps. Kings Lynn is not a coastal town with North Sea beach’s, it’s just on the mouth of the river Gt Ouse. Ok so it’s tidal and like London the Thames is tidal which means that any where the waters are tidal they are classed as coastal, this makes London a coast town right the way west inland to Teddington. A small town in Kent on the Medway named Wateringbury is tidal also so that is a coastal village. No. Where I live we are way beyond 80 miles from the coast. Clacton is exactly 119 miles away.

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The town that often has the highest annual sunshine hours in England.

@@sewwoollyltd4509 We? You don't speak for the United Kingdom. I think it's you that's rude, so turn your Caps Lock off and stop being so silly.

Angelique - I live in Dorset, it's such a beautiful place to be. I would recommend a visit to anyone.

@@AdventuresAndNaps these shacks, don't know what they're called. Cuts to sign saying 'Converted Fisherman's Huts' . I don't know what I'd call them. 😂😂

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Aye, looked alright but not a lot of it. Oyster is only acceptable in stout in my book. You may have a different book - that's cool, too!

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Nearby to where Alanna got her Fish 'n' Chips, is a bench that Peter Cushing bought in memory of his wife. It's at a spot where they used to sit and just look out to sea and is now officially named "Cushing's View". Also, up the High Street is a Wetherspoons that was an old cinema back in the day; it's called "The Peter Cushing".

i used to go to Seasalter as a teenager to a caravan park and passed Peter Cushings house while walking to Whitstable.

Is he still alive?

@@dinerouk No, he died in 1994.

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And there's the £5.50 for a fishfinger sandwich !!!

Several of those are not 'traditional British delicacies'. Jellied eels for example are only a SE England thing and mainly disliked. The others vary in availability depending on the coast/place visited.

@@Thurgosh_OG I believe you are confusing regional and British. If something is regional within Britain it can certainly be said to be British. Whether something is disliked or not is subjective, if you don’t like something you don’t buy it yet jellied eels have been sold for a couple of Centuries or more. All of the afore mentioned seafoods have been eaten for centuries in the British Isles and are more British than Tea, Scouse, Polo , The Windsor’s, and yes even Fish and chips. What are some of your favourite seaside foods? Have a great day.

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I will only ever eat oysters when there’s a Z in the month. In English.

The fact that Southern Water has been heavily fined for pumping raw sewage into the sea in this area would put me off too. 🤢. Nice to see you out and about Alana, you’re looking very well.

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😂 It's different!!

@@AdventuresAndNaps I know. I’’m just kidding you really. You might recall I do a weekly radio show that’s syndicated on radio stations in the USA and streamed on the internet several times a week. I sit alone in the studio while I do the show and I’m relaxed, confident and comfortable then. Yet speak into the same microphone when my family are listening and I get tongue tied and stammer hopelessly But that doesn’t mean you getting all bashful being seen videoing yourself in the streets of Whitstable isn’t funny!

@@AdventuresAndNaps I enjoyed that but b4 people started going abroad in The 1960's it used to be packed solid with holidaymakers, mostly from South London and mostly staying caravans which were massive Business in those days but, sadly, most English Southern Coastal Towns have fallen victim to the natural desire to "guarantee" the sun in Spain, Italy, Portugal etc... That High Street was ALL individual shops in The 1960's with 4 local Butcher Shops and you could buy everything Pre Supermarkets.

100,000 _known_ people. How many unknown?

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A lot of southern beaches are pebbles, not sand.

Yes. Do Hastings. My home town.

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And we all know what Brits do to natives.... ....we invite them in for a cuppa. ;-)

We had to fight off a few birds 💪🏻

Had a guy pecked & blood drawn by big seagulls attacking people in the Liverpool area.

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You need to be careful with some of the bearded clams too. If it smells of fish flavoured cat food, walk away.

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Top tip: there's actually a pub called "The Neptune" which is literally on the beach! I'm surprised a certain person didn't drop in for a cider as it was only 100 yards or so away. :)

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@@AdventuresAndNaps you are very welcome :)