Village Life

Checked out of the Ipswich Novatel and entered Ruckinge into the sat-nav (otherwise known as my iPhone).  Ruckinge is the village in Kent where Carole (otherwise known as my travel agent) had found a cottage to stay in.  £200 for the week.  So we again hit the road .  

Kent is in the South East and our village was not far from the coast, the channel tunnel and also Dover where the ferries cross the English channel.  And close enough to get back to London for the football on Saturday.

The cottage looked very nice on the net but £200 isn't that much (though we had seen the same cottage on different letting websites for significantly more) so it was fingers crossed as we rolled up.  The owner showed us through and it was indeed as nice as it appeared on the net.  Two bedrooms upstairs with Ben's looking at the stars through a very large glass skylight type thing-a-me.  We also had the use of a tennis court, swings, trampoline (not sounding much like a cottage in a small village but it is, trust me).  Ben couldn't wait to try out all three within the first hour and it's a good job we did as the weather would change to white soon enough.