To Margate

After we returned home, we had a few weeks of catching up with admin matters and trying to sort out the mountain of photos, then it was time to resume to our regular visits to the UK to keep up with Ernie. 

We arrived late in the evening, having taken the train from Béziers to Paris and then the EuroStar to Ashford. 

Helen and family have now moved out of their house in Broadstairs while it is renovated and are now living in an apartment in Margate. We were able to rent another apartment in the same development, so were close by. The apartments are part of a large site, the Royal Seabathing, which was a hospital. 

The development is still being worked on, and will be for some years, but there is a large number of apartments in use already with an underground car park. 

Our first day was gloriously warm and, it being school holidays, there were plenty of people on the beach. Ernie enjoyed getting his feet wet, but it was too cold for us to play properly in the sea.

Margate is on the Loop bus which goes around Thanet, so we know some parts of it, but not others.  As usual, our week involved taking Ernie to some of his favourite a trips,  on the Loop to the Hornby visitor centre. 

A trip on the 'blue train' to Canterbury with Ernie on. Is always popular and this time he brought his scooter.  The local park was also popular and close by and we all enjoyed walks into Margate and ice creams at the little cafe of the crazy golf, which is very close to the Seabathing. 

We managed to get to London on Sunday to see Jim and Sohpie who was in the UK for a few days. 

We returned to France for a couple of days before our next trip .....