Today is Xmas day, and I've just received an email confirming we can have a cottage for five nights in Sandwich, Kent. (Interestingly, there is another town nearby called Ham!).
Sandwich is an historic town, and only 20 kms from Dover and/or Canterbury, so well placed for lots of things. It's also not far from the coast.
So, we will do the usual thing and send a deposit, and this is the last place we might book, and just try our luck where we end up in other places. We will have twenty-six nights of self-catering, twenty-one nights where we are cruising, and the rest is either booked or arranged or we at least have an idea which area/town/city we might be in.
What we have always enjoyed about doing our own thing is that you get to have a kitchen, usually a sitting room/lounge area, and a separate bedroom. What you also get to do is to be able to cook for yourself and it need not be expensive. There are always supermarkets or if you strike the right day in a particular town, local markets from which you can buy stuff, e.g. fresh veg, etc. Of course there is always the local pub, or fish and chips.
Overall you can end up saving a lot on accommodation, because our 26 nights have averaged out at $89 per night, which is pretty good considering what you'd pay in some motels and hotels, and you have the chance to make toast, and have a fridge handy. Very few motels in the UK seem to have fridges in the rooms.
Well, that's all for now, and we'll be back in the New Year.
Toast hey, are you sure that's wise with your toaster record?? ;p
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