nicest (secret?) beaches on the kent/east sussex coast

[mulranno]

are there any quiet coves along this stretch of the st coast?

Botony bay on the kent coast......shhhhhhh!

Joss Bay near Margate

anyone been to St Margarets?

I'd 2nd Joss Bay, or Botany Bay. Broadstairs is lovely - but not secret - more seafood stalls and donkey rides. St Margarets is not much to write home about really and is pebbly. The Warren near Folkestone is sandy and it is easy to find a quiet spot.

Porto - do you go to Morelli's for an ice cream?

The little bay next to joss bay is fab
Tankerton is not secret but dog friendly
Romney marsh has lots of muddy sand and anpub that dies costa coffee

Used to. I even worked at Morelli's once - though in Dover rather than Broadstairs.....

Botany is my fave but shhhhhh ...

Joss bay. I like eastbourne too.

Broadstairs to me is like the seaside was like in the 50s. Beach huts, mini-golf, ice cream, donkeys, whelks. Lovely.

I prefer Botany to Joss because it's less crowded, less commercialised (there's no bouncy castle which are the bane of my life!) and there are some lovely rock formations and caves to explore. When the tide's out you can walk round to the bay between Botany and Joss (which I think is actually considered an extension of Botany) and there is an enormous beach which only ever has about three people on it :)

:o at you working at Morelli's porto

Oh stop! It's thanks to threads like this that these beaches aren't secret at all any more. EVERYONE I've met knows about Botany, Londoners, newcomers, everyone.

Maybe the Guardian published something about it. Anyway it's not a secret any more.

I think further suggestions ought to be done by PM

Oh and yes st Margs is BIG grey stones. Horrible.

Sorry! There have been so many bloody articles about the beaches here though - my parents regularly cut them out and send them to me - that the secret is most definitely out. The fact that you can't park unless you get there at 10am gets rid of the day-trippers though

Oh it';s Ok. I know. It's too late. It's cos we're in driving distance from the big smoke.

DFL resentment

Christine - oh yes - I have fond memories of my red and white striped tabard! I used to like manning the ice-cream machine outside. It was a great way of meeting boys! Aah for the old days when I was young and thin and got chatted up regularly by attractive young men ... and got free ice cream....

I'd be the size of a house if I worked at Morellis . If you eat two scoops in a cone though, you can quite easily do without dinner. I wonder if there's a market for a Morelli's meal replacement diet? :o

Porto i used to work in the one in Eastbourne, I think called Fusciardi's. We never had tabards

Oh yes, tabard and a jaunty paper hat! Mr Morelli, son of the original Signor Morelli I believe, had a very expensive wife and the most adorable dd. By my calculation she must be about 30 now. I wonder if she is a MNetter?

Christine, I take it you live round that way then? I was born in Dover and lived in Deal for many years before moving abroad. I MISS the sea!

Porto - a hat? A jaunty hat? Good God, I'd have paid them to work there if there was a hat! And a tabard, you say?

No wonder they were fighting over me!

It didn't seem so romantic when it was my turn to clean the burger grill machine thing at 11pm though.....

Not surprised, Porto. Bet you looked a bit spesh in that hat

Btw, did you wear anything under the tabard? Or was it like a kilt?