We spent the day yesterday just exploring Canterbury and re-gathering our strength.
Canterbury is a pretty impressive place with the amazing Cathedral which is the worldwide headquarters and the spiritual home of the Anglican Church. The city has some beautiful architecture.
Today we rode from Canterbury to Tenterden (50 kms.) Once again, because as we are now heading in a westerly direction, we had a strong headwind. The ride seemed to be a steady gradual climb as well, but it was easy to follow and quite scenic.
The road was closed in two separate places because of what looked like a damaged water main. We were very lucky that the workers let us slip through both road blocks on our bikes, saving us about 2 hours of backtracking. All cars were turned away.
We had lunch at Ashford, which is an unusually modern town with lots of new modern houses and well planned parks and gardens. It also has two railway stations right opposite each other - one for normal English rail travel (London etc), and the other one was called 'Ashford International Station'. I'm assuming that the High Speed rail service stops here on it's way to Paris, Nice, Brussels and Amsterdam etc.
Route: Canterbury - Chartham - Shalmsford Street - Wye - Ashford - Tenterden (White Lion Hotel).
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