Sandy Beaches...

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• Bridget

  February 2009 edited 5:25PM

  Camber Sands has lovely white sandy beaches, its a couple of hours drive or you can get a train I think.

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• Duncan

  February 2009 edited 5:25PM

  My son enjoyed playing in the sand at Finsbury Park ...

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• unaesthetic

  February 2009 edited 5:25PM

  bridget, you reminded me of the great "<a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Fad+Gadget/_/Back+to+Nature">back to nature</a>" by under-appreciated 80s synthpop weirdo <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Fad+Gadget">fad gadget</a>!

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• tosscat

  February 2009 edited 5:25PM

  Just for the beach or lovely walk around, lunch and things to look at? Whitstable is very nice for a day trip and I can recommend it for swimming, it's not the sandiest, but it's still very.

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• Beek

  February 2009 edited 5:25PM

  Thanks for the info all, you've been marvellous. Whitstable wins on account of railway station and only 1hr20mins from victoria. Perfect.

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• Bridget

  February 2009 edited 5:25PM

  Nice seafood cafe in Whitstable - I remember getting seafood to take out to eat on the windy beach, sipping red wine from a plastic cup watching the waves! Those were the days.
  
  Have a lovely time.
  
  Unaesthetic, that made me laugh so much, I remember Fad Gadget, well the name at least!

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• Firenze

  February 2009 edited 5:25PM

  I think the nearest must be at Leigh-on-Sea. From Crouch Hill via Barking you can get there in not much more than an hour.

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• Duncan

  February 2009 edited 5:25PM

  Ooo. An excuse to put the "b" into Goblin!

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• wisteria53

  February 2009 edited 5:25PM

  I've always like the GOBLIN name for that train. The rail user group calls themselves the BGOLUG which just doesn't have the same appeal....

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• Beek

  February 2009 edited 5:25PM

  What are you two on about???

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• poxy

  February 2009 edited 5:25PM

  <http://www.barking-gospeloak.org.uk/news.htm>;

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• Beek

  February 2009 edited 5:25PM

  Oh my, trainspotters.

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• tosscat

  February 2009 edited February 2009

  Did you go in the end anyway Beek?

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• Beek

  February 2009 edited 5:25PM

  Yes we did. It was fantastic. Thanks again for the recommendation. What I particularly loved about Whitstable was the scale - everything is so close to the beach - chippy, takeaway crappucinos, decent loos in the arts centre (!). The sand quality was excellent too! Lots of shingle, but a nice fat band of sand to keep the little uns amused for hours and hours. Got any more recommendations?

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