I used to cycle to dartford all the time. Good trip. I like the landscape and the scenery round purfleet and rainham
Unlike Essex then...imbued with a sense of slow moving implacable violence
Leigh on Sea? We used to like going there - oysters Fresh out of the sea on the beach and cockles and so on in all the pubs. Weird posh houses along the front, all different from each other.Not sure if this has been mentioned but I took the path out across Rainham marshes and rode along the Thames path all the way back home to Leigh. Most of it is easily rideable and the only bits that were a bit difficult would be fine most of the year round - and it's certainly walkable.
i was in Plumstead yesterday. weird vibe. ominous. feels very Kentish too.
Leigh has much that would appeal. Possibly becoming a little too much ‘Shoreditch-by-the-Sea’ in places.Leigh on Sea? We used to like going there - oysters Fresh out of the sea on the beach and cockles and so on in all the pubs. Weird posh houses along the front, all different from each other.
My girlfriend took a picture of a sunny day on the beach and all of her friends in Russia asked where it was, she said a half-hour train ride from London and they just didn't believe her, they totally think it's a fogbound Victorian metropolis hundreds of miles from the sea and that the sun never shines in the UK (when actually it does peek through once or twice a year).
Ah. Well I haven't been there for a few years now so hopefully the ones I ate were ok.... never harmed me anyhow.Leigh has much that would appeal. Possibly becoming a little too much ‘Shoreditch-by-the-Sea’ in places.
I wouldn’t go anywhere near an oyster straight out of the estuary though - recent dredging for the superport DP World has stirred up all kinds of nasty stuff which has been affecting sea life. Round the corner on the coast in the Roach and Crouch oysters have been farmed right back to Roman times and seem to be safer.
it's a low energy malevolence. something sullen and fat in the landscape.