Whistlestop Whitstable
As a youngster I grew up in Kent. On the rare occasion we had a Sunday out to the beach it was often to places like Hastings, or Broadstairs but never Whitstable. So it was with some excitement that as a much older kid, the wife and I had booked an overnight stay with two friends to visit Whitstable. I had perhaps one reservation and that was that I had heard plenty of stories before my visit about how Whitstable had become a ‘destination’ to visit and was apparently quite a ‘trendy’ and ‘hip’ place. That always worries me but having never been, I had no previous experience to compare against so would just take it as I found it. We’d booked an overnight stay at Warehouse Cottages which were brilliantly located right in town, on the beach front and come with their own off-street parking. Accommodation was laid out over two floors and made up of two separate en-suite rooms. Both rooms overlooked the beach with the 2nd floor room having a balcony...