Great video, one of my go to places as a local photographer .. last year there was a resident grey heron around but been twice recently and no sign of it .. if you would like to follow my photography I am on FB, also Instagram @robloveswildlife x
There are at least 3 or 4 free car parks in Aylesford. The other free parking I know of is a beauty spot at Bluebell Hill, and remarkably, Bluewater shopping centre.
I’m not religious at all really, but in historical religious sites everywhere, you can’t help feeling in awe of something, maybe it’s the footsteps of those gone before, and this may sound odd but I always feel like the load has been lightened, especially when I visit Lincoln Cathedral, that place just is perfect it’s my favourite place in my county, well and Sir. Isaac Newton’s apple tree, being surrounded by history makes me happy.
I'm a devout atheist but I love religious buildings for simply the amount of effort it took. Astounding human achievment. How did they do that without machines?! Amazing.
@@mooghead Definitely, I wholeheartedly agree. Many religious buildings around the world were actually the sites of major technological and architectural innovation. Take for example the Duomo of the Cathedral of Santa Maria in Florence, built in 1436. It was the first ever self supporting dome, that supported itself as it was being built. All of this done, as you say, without machinery (at least the modern electronic machinery we use today) , just ropes, pulleys, stone and manpower. Incredible, really. On top of that, it isn't just an engineering marvel, but also aesthetically gorgeous, to me anyway. If you haven't seen it in person, it really is spectacular, and it was built over half a millennium ago!
Hundreds of beautiful villages like this all over the UK - feel so blessed. I reckon those geese were making such a noise because they recognised another Canadian! lol 🙃😂🙏
My wife and I love this part of England. My late dad was born in Kent, so there’s an added family attraction. By the way, I’m Canadian and understood everything that the geese said.
🇨🇦 The realization that every one of the stones in the Priory was placed by a craftsman, one at a time, by hand is staggering. We marvel at modern architecture but it really doesn’t hold a candle. Another wonderful video. Stay safe. Keep up the excellent work.💚
Same for nearly all our cathedrals. You can still see in most of them where the scaffolding was built. I remember something from a BBC Drama "at one time the sight of a cathedral put the awe and fear of God into people, now we just see them as pictures on place mats"
That castle they are building in France using the techniques of the time showed the placing of every stone was done a few times then was lime mortered into place.
There is a Ragstone quarry still working in Ditton, close to Aylesford, where I grew up back in the 1960s. The stones from there have built many a great house, church, bridge, priory and prison as far away as Maidstone.
It never ceases to amaze me that foreigners always want to go to London when you have beautiful, quaint little towns and villages less than forty miles from London. Kent is just beautiful. The garden of England. 🇨🇦🇬🇧🖖
Oh come on, the first time ever in England of course people will want visit London... "Westminster Abbey, the Tower of Big Ben, the Rosie Red Cheeks of the Little Children"
@@roberttreborable I wasn't dissing London per se, it's one of the greatest metropolises in the world. I'm just saying there's more to this fair isle. And you don't have to travel far. Before the Scots, Welsh and Irish get on their high horse, I mean the whole of the UK. 🇨🇦🇬🇧🖖
I live in se9 and I can jump on the m20 and be in kent in 20mins and I love it, park up in the middle of nowhere and it’s just me and nature! The birds are chirping the sheep are bleating and the horses running freely in the fields and I can just chill in my car and there is just peace and nature and the heavy breathing I make with my gimp mask on 😊
Just came across this video. I live in this village & agree that it is a lovely place indeed. A quintessential English village. The bridge is a 1,000 years old & worth seeing, we also have the Little Gem the smallest pub in Kent.
It saddens me beyond belief that anybody, let alone more than one person, would give a thumbs down to one of your videos! Your joyful and positive attitude to everything is an enormous asset to our entire population!!
Not sure people deliberately hit the thumbs down. The act of scrolling the page can give accidental hits. I've done it but noticed I'd done it. Statistically, its going to happen
I've accidentally thumbs down a video when trying to stop my phone launching itself into the sink or other water based receptacle, so you never know a thumbs down may not have been the worst outcome!
A RU-vid vlogger described how it works and according to them neither is relevant but hitting either is. It's also helpful to comment as the algorithm notes them for the vlogger s rating.
hi, I live 5 minutes away from Aylesford priory. Lovely place to just stroll around on a spring/summer day Which we can now do very shortly without fear of Covid ! . It's only 35 miles from central London as are many beautiful parts of England in all directions, north, south , east or west. 👌
Aww my Mum used to work at the priory gift shop it’s so lovely seeing local areas from the perspective of someone who didn’t grow up around them and enjoying them as much as I used to. ❤️
being a person of a certain age .... it still shocks me NOT to see a tax disc in the corner of the windscreen! its soooo good to have a little bit of freedom back! enjoy yourself, keep up the great work, and big love to all people :)
@@Tom_RU-vid_stole_my_handle government being cheapskates, I think I already had the paper one by then but I didn't even bother putting it on. There was absolutely no point, no-one ever looked at it!
The Geese are like.... Goose 1: I don't have the Visa... i thought you had the Visa? Goose 2: I don't have the Visa... you said you'd arrange the Visa's? Goose 3: Don't look at me either. Goose 1: Okay.. who's going to volunteer to fly back and get the Visa? Goose 1 & 2 stare at Goose 3 Goose 3: (Sighs) Man, who's idea was it to migrate in the first place.
@@AdventuresAndNaps Thank's Letchworth's best known for being the worlds first designed Garden City or New Town and also the worlds first street roundabout!
Hi Alanna. I agree those are interesting videos. Especially in spring/summer. Well-done highlighting some history. Thanks for reminding me of the fast speeds on country roads...🇬🇧
It's so nice to see someone enjoying Kent like this! Your recent videos about places in and around Kent have really refreshed my affection for the area I live in.
I was born in Wouldham, a village not far from Aylesford and lived in Kent until I migrated to Australia when I was 20. Moving to Australia was the best thing I ever did (over 30 years ago now), but I did enjoy your video and the walk down memory lane. Wow...I forgot just how narrow the roads are in England :)
I grew up a short walk from Aylesford, at Ditton. My parents ran the fish and chip shop there and the wool shop next door; they are both made into one larger fish and chip shop now.
Socialise with the geese is more like, " Wow. They're mad I looked and got too close! Run everyone!" I was fully prepared to see you running with geese chasing you as they are mean as anything.
Before Alanna was around the back listening to the birds The snare drum in that piece of music was annoying me as it's timing wandered and it was slightly too soon.
My mum came from eccles just up the road. I used to go to aylesford all the time. My uncles used to drive lorries for safeways and one of my other uncles worked at the kimbley clark factory
If you are visiting by train, when you come out by the Aylesford station building (no longer in use), turn left for Aylesford less than 100 yards, turn right for Ditton (about 200 yards).
@@AdventuresAndNaps I love you love our lil old island called the U.K. ...our quaint little villages really are something special. Love the channel Alannah..keep it up
A welcome reminder that there are loads of interesting places to visit in the UK. I don't know Kent very well. My only experience of the county is stopping at Maidstone Services prior to travelling to France via the tunnel, and a school trip when I was ten. In addition to visiting Dover and Canterbury and the usual places our teachers took us to a nightclub to see a drag act!
Ahh that looks amazing! I'm also a Canadian originally and though I live in Australia, my dream is to move to England one day if I can manage. Absolutely love the history, architecture, and beautiful landscapes.
Don't waste your time! You're lucky, stay in Oz! I'm English and I'm telling u, my country has became a 3rd world sh*those, mass immigration has totally ruined it beyond recognition...honestly it's sad to see...
I lived in kent for nearly 30 years and loved visiting many of the surrounding village's. Smarden, Pluckley, Tenterden and Headcorn are very nice and have some great pubs and stories of 👻. Smarden Bell was my favourite pub and they have a excellent beer 🍺 garden💙✌
Used to parachute from Cesna 172 (GATWJ) in Headcorn and visit the Mounted Rifleman close by for a pint brought up from the cellars before heading back to London, those were the days.
Pity you couldn't have a drink in the little gem ,a pub down the road.Safeway supermarkets used to have their headquarters there aswell.used to know the area quiet wellies around there for 18 years
The Little Gem is indeed a little gem. Your route out should have been via Eccles, Burham and Wouldham and back into Rochester. Or maybe across Peters Bridge to Halling and back to the A20 via Snodland. Maybe next time.
I take it you havent been to Aylesford in a long time. The Little Gem closed down 11 years ago but I have heard that there are plans to reopen it. The Safeway site is now owned by Waitrose.
Hey Alanna, good to see you well and out and about. That's some truly stunning green screen, CGI work you did there, it almost looks real. ;-) Napping is over, time for some adventures. That long peace garden looked very nice, if I'm ever in that area I'm definitely going to visit that priory. Thanks for highlighting it.
The buildings to your right (behind the hedge) in the first shot looking over the bridge was a school, which was one of the first schools built in Britain, in about 1860.
The road over the bridge goes to Ditton, then carefully cross the A20 and take New Road to the small church, and in there is a family tomb that includes Charles Dickens' parents and other ancestors.
I just wish that villages and towns were that traffic free all the time, it is so much more pleasant to walk around without lungful's of traffic pollution or the risk of being hit by a door mirror.
Wow! This village used to be where I walked for my lunch breaks a few years back. I recommend you visit Rochester as well in Medway. There's a beautiful Rochester Castle and Rochester Catherdal with an amazing food scene (restaurants) on the High Street. Rochester bridge will also leave you amazed. Well done
Me, too. Also read in a book on the Germans plans for invading England that they were counting on that bridge to move a Panzer Division across the Medway... They had better have brought a bridge with them, as the main road was over a British Army Bailey Bridge for many years (new one replaced it now).
Hi Alanna, Wow!! excellent video. Thanks for sharing. You have definitely outdone yourself this time. Love the geese there. It sounds like they are all giving you a welcome. It always looks so lush and green in the English countryside. We are in autumn here in Melbourne Australia and there has even been a bit of snow in the mountains. Aylesford looks like a very nice area. Wishing you the very best. Take care. Robert.
Lots of nice river walks in Aylesford and Maidstone surrounding are. I will have to visit again in the next couple of years and visit my favourite Maidstone town centre pub which is called the Thirsty pig 🐖🥃🍻💙✌
Thanks for posting this, 10 years ago I worked in Maidstone for a couple of years and used to chill out at the priory a couple of times a week. That was so nostalgic for me I knew what was lurking around every corner. Ashame you never got to stop in one of the pubs on the high street but the memory of it is flooding back.
I asked a while ago, if you could get out and about more as I am bored with grey! So here you are, but you only just scratched the surface of the village, and it would have been good to check out the pub/s and some other stuff! Not withstanding that, it is always good to see you, with your bright and cheerful demeanour, and positive attitude,,,,x
“Deep sigh of happiness...Kent, MY home county too.....love living in the Garden of England.... looked such lovely afternoon, hope you had a nice walk taking in the fresh Spring sunshine xx
Love the videos. Thanks for the positivity and all you do to sell our wonderful country to tourists. I'm sure you must bring in a few quid to this country.
Knole park is well worth a walk in the sunshine...Stately home, ancient forest and wild deer everywhere. Ightam mote is another good visit not far from here.
The glorious sounds of the M20 in the background :) it looked lovely though. Looking forward to more Kent, maybe East Sussex too. An Oast House or two. Castles, Cathedrals, Houses, Gardens, sea and estuaries. Oh, pub gardens! When we can go out properly it will be great.
Please can we have more of these exploring videos, they are amazing... The time will come when you get a fan recognise you on one of your visits, and if you want to visit Colchester just let me know... I will buy you a coffee.
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH for showing so much of Aylesford Priory. This is one of my favourite places on earth and it feels like Heaven. I just love this trip you gave me around my loved shrine. Praying for you now and thank you for all your lovely videos. You are a delight to listen to and always do a good job and put me into a lifted and happy mood. Keep up the good work. You are super. Thank you again for your review of Aylesford Priory and the village.
Been there. On Sunday mornings there is (pre-COVID) a farmers market by the car park. The tea rooms at the priory do nice cakes too. We park in the priory car park and do a 8 mile circular walk around the area
