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Margate summer Funtimes
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danski
"vibey"
Can highly recommend Po'boys, next to the red bus cafe (which I also highly recommend). Not cheap but really fucking good. They sell Red Stripe too. What's not to like?!
Great coffee next door as well.
Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
Looks like we've rearranged our postponed Margate trip with my parents to the 9th August.
It's a bit of a way off but weather forecast is looking hopeful (dry but not hot, my mum can't travel far if it's hot cos it causes her some health issues so mild and dry is best!)
Can't wait, I was gutted to have to cancel it last time, really looking forward to it. I think we're planning on ice cream, fish n chips, shell grotto, and a bit of a stroll.
It's a bit of a way off but weather forecast is looking hopeful (dry but not hot, my mum can't travel far if it's hot cos it causes her some health issues so mild and dry is best!)
Can't wait, I was gutted to have to cancel it last time, really looking forward to it. I think we're planning on ice cream, fish n chips, shell grotto, and a bit of a stroll.
Callie
Pivoting
I had a really delicious walnut, coffee and fudge ice cream from hereget an ice cream from here
danski
"vibey"
Previously the Dogget Coat and Badge.I had a really delicious walnut, coffee and fudge ice cream from here
Was open when we first moved to Margate but shut at some point in the 90s
DOGGETT COAT AND ARMS Pubs of Margate
www.dover-kent.com
we went, it certainly was
Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
Might see whether the parents can do the Thursday instead only it's getting suspiciously close to a very busy weekend for us and we're a bit decrepit these days
We've got OH's mum's 80th (not in London!) on the 12th which is also our wedding anniversary, and the Urban Walk/drinks I am organising on the 13th and I would like to not die of knackered
Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
I actually legit can't wait, due to go for a day trip on Wednesday with my parents which will be part of our anniversary staycation, it seems like it's been forever since I went to the seaside
Keeping a close eye on the weather forecast but will probably take both waterproof coat and sunglasses + sunblock just in case.
Keeping a close eye on the weather forecast but will probably take both waterproof coat and sunglasses + sunblock just in case.
SOLD! (But is this Margate or Ramsgate?)I went mostly for the synth* museum in Ramsgate and I would strongly recommend anyone visit it, even if you're not a synth/tech nerd you will enjoy it. Everything is interactive and it's just madness.
This Museum Is (Not) Obsolete
this-museum-is-not-obsolete.com
*It's not just synths. It's old technology that's either presented as is, as it's cool, or re-purposed into something else. Usually a synth
There's a vintage computer game museum next door that I didn't have time to go in, but also seemed really cool.
Fez909
toilet expert
Ramsgate
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
It is, but it's about 8 miles. If you don't fancy walking another 8 miles back, you're stuck, as there's no train station at Reculver.
hash tag
Books, not bombs
Not much idea of the distance as we kept going to Whitstable and got a train from there
ska invita
back on the other side
yeah nearest stations are herne bay to the west and westgate to the east
walk from herne bay is sea front followed by a green and pleasant hill climb
walk from westgate goes along the beach but set against wild marshes and has a more barren but beautiful feel
2 hours each way station to reculver
best as a bike ride IMO, path all the way pretty much
walk from herne bay is sea front followed by a green and pleasant hill climb
walk from westgate goes along the beach but set against wild marshes and has a more barren but beautiful feel
2 hours each way station to reculver
best as a bike ride IMO, path all the way pretty much
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Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
Agreed. I cycled from Broadstairs to Whitstable 2 weeks ago with zora and alsoknownas along that path . Its a great ride, mostly off road and mostly flat.
ska invita
back on the other side
Theres two Soul Weekenders in Margate through the year!Looks like there was a big soul festival (on the seafront....?with free stuff to attend maybe?) Last weekend. Lots of things happening. Margate is cool
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
Visited Margate at the weekend. Highlights included a great gig at Where Else/Elsewhere (Personal Trainer), the Lighthouse Bar - great views and atmosphere, but no draught beer, Rose in June - lovely looking pub with great crisps, and The Crab Museum. Can't believe how much I enjoyed this place, it was informative, really funny and a bit bonkers. The staff were great too, really enthusiastic and happy to impart crab knowledge.
Yeah the crab museum is great. They have way better merch than the average museum giftshop tat too
www.crabmuseum.org
Store — Crab Museum
www.crabmuseum.org
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
Margate and Westgate on Sea, August '23.
I quite like Margate and the Turner Gallery, and the area around Cliftonville. There's one or two decent second hand bookshops and pleasant places to eat. The skies are extraordinary around there at most times of the year, only really Morecambe Bay and the North East of Scotland challenge the Thanet skies for beauty. Yes the art/ antiques / crafts is prominent in a way that would have been unimaginable in the 1980s and 1990s but the old Buster Bloodvessel Margate is still there- just older, much sicker, and much less visible. Art hasn't totally papered over those fissures. There's still a little sense of danger / violence / anger there some weekends. Ramsgate seems a little more relaxed, if a little more odd.
An ideal flat would be at the top of what we refer to as "Soviet Margate"; the big tower block above Dreamland. I'm not sure if people still live there but the views from the top floors must be astonishing.
Margate FC is a decent day out even if the ground is half finished and otherwise a jumble of portakabins and shipping containers. There's been some endless planning saga around building a Travel Lodge which has never quite come off, the money from that was suppsoed to propel the club up the footballing pyramid. For whatever reason it;s never quite happened.
Westgate is more God's waiting room, full of old buffers with a lot of retirement money to sit on, like old buzzards trying to keep a fossilised egg warm. The place is full of affluent charity shops and classic cars. Last time I was there there was an old timer proudly humming along in an immaculately polished burgundy Morris Minor convertible which he had made electric- that conversion alone wouldn't have left much change out of 30k.
Birchington was probably a nice village once upon a time but now horrid with traffic, and folk there seem to have harder lives working in the local shops and farms just to keep afloat. It's permanently choked with seething off-the-motorway traffic, great big arterial clots of vehicle trying to squeeze through it's narrow veins, and the shopfronts and houses have a greying consumptive's air to them.
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I need to visit this.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Went there yesterday for a day trip and had a lovely time. Highlight was the Crab Museum. We were all laughing so much in there and came out with massive grins on our faces. But it also got my grey cells whirring thinking about the roles of museums as both gatekeepers and disseminators of knowledge, and the importance of staying curious about everything in adulthood and beyond. Some great merch too. The funniest and most radical crab museum I’ve ever visited.
I also had the best ice-cream ever at Ramsay & Williams - went twice it was so good - marmalade & stem ginger ice-cream ftw!
I also had the best ice-cream ever at Ramsay & Williams - went twice it was so good - marmalade & stem ginger ice-cream ftw!
Hoss
...It was the blurst of times...
Somehow missed this post last year! Didn't know it was a pub...and next to the Ice Owl Chinese restaurant. Massive site that and it's been empty for years!
Puddy_Tat
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