Thursday 23rd May 2024

This morning Gareth's robotic lawn mower, known as Trevor, was doing his thing. Apparently he does it every day unless it's raining in which case he knows not to do any mowing!

Today Kerry and Gareth are hard at work so we amused ourselves.

After breakfast we drove the short distance to National Trust Sissinghurst Gardens and parked in the camper section of the carpark. Here we see vans from left to right German, British, Swiss and Netherlands.

We'd been to Sissinghurst many years ago but didn't remember it very well.

Seems like it's a very good time of year to visit - the place is packed out.

Here's the tower. We decide not to go up it.

I remember from my last visit that there is a very good view from the top.

There are flowers everywhere!

We walked down this beautiful avenue of lime trees.

Impressive!

This is the moat.

This plaque commemorates one of the founders of Sissinghurst as it is today.

 And this one commemorates the other modern founder.

This area of the garden has Mediterranean flora.

 The restaurant was packed out.

So we concluded our visit in the tearoom where there was plenty of space.

We left Sissinghurst and travelled into Maidstone where we eventually found a big Halfords shop and bought new wiper blades for the van. We also did a minor shop at the adjacent M&S Food Hall.

Later on we went out for a meal with Kerry and Gareth at their local pub.

Today we travelled 44 miles (71 kilometres).