Category: Travel & Tourism

Reports collected from around Kent bear witness to the knock-on effects on local roads of traffic congestion entering Dover Port.

I work as a professional tour guide and hold two ‘Blue Badge’ qualifications, for guiding in London and in South-East England (Kent, Surrey and Sussex). Before 2020, most of my work was with cruise ships calling at Dover and groups of French schoolchildren studying at local language schools. Both sources of work disappeared altogether with […]

Mike Phillips takes us to some of the highlights of Holland, including Delft and The Hague. As he says: there’s more to come.

Gadheim, near Würzburg, contains the site of the centre of the EU. At a recent Europe Day Festival members of East Kent EM took part.

“All change for Ashford” is a drama about the development of the railways through Ashford. It is enacted around the old town centre church.

Waka is the Maori word for a vessel or canoe. A waka hourua is a double hulled ocean-going canoe used over many centuries for migration of the Maori race across the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean. The design used is still relevant to sports and recreational boats of today.

When you book your family holiday, the last thing you want to worry about is the safety of the flight you are taking. Who ensures that the flight is as safe as possible? 

Magdalena examines her lasting horror of crossing international borders. In this article she details a very harrowing experience in Hungary.

Eurotunnel traffic increase: the number of freight trucks using the tunnel was up 38% compared to January 2021; passenger vehicles up 44%.

Mike travels from Spain to Kent to discover the true effects of Brexit thus far on his family, and contemplates political change in the EU.