Trains: Depending where you are in London, take a Southeastern train to Dover or beyond (to Sandwich). Instead of hopping off the train in Dover, perhaps a better option would be to take it to Sandwich (or Canterbury), rent a bike, ride a trail back to Dover, return the bike, and take the train from Dover back to London. I looked into finding bike rentals but couldn’t find a company that did pick-up and drop-off in different locations. Bikes aren’t permitted on the England Coast Path (at least the area we were walking), but there are plenty of other cycling options.
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Hire a cycle or bring your ownĬover more distance on wheels. It’s stunning to look at even from the outside, and I wish I had more time. Since I had a late start from London, I didn’t have enough time to walk through the castle and go back to the medieval times. If you have time, consider paying the entrance fee into the castle. The castle is completed in 1256 but had earlier construction during the late BC and early AC time. While walking around the bluffs or town, you may have noticed a large castle towering on the hillside above.
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I opted not to take this tour, but I might just have to go back in the future. Tickets are on a first-come, first-serve basis. While visiting the White Cliffs, consider exploring the Fan Bay Deep Shelter, which was part of the tunnels ordered by Winston Churchill. Take a break from walking the path and sip tea while enjoying the views. It’s an old Victorian design and adds to the coastal vibes. On a nice day, you’ll find kids flying kites high above the lighthouse. If you do, retrace your footsteps and enjoy the views from a different angle. You can pay a few pounds and hop on the bus back into town if you don’t want to repeat the same walk back to Dover. Watch the car traffic here.Ĭlimb the narrow roadway you walked down and continue to climb up to Bay Hill, where you’ll find a bus stop. After you pass by the Pines Garden Tea Room and Museum, walk down a narrow road towards the water. From the lighthouse, there’s a bit of road walking before the path continues to St. Continue on the footpaths until the lighthouse. Continue to the National Trust-The White Cliffs of Dover visitor center where most of the footpaths start. As you start out, walk through town or along the water to view the ships coming in and out of the harbor. We walked from the Dover train station to St. There are plenty of grassy area to choose from. Bonus points if you pack a picnic and surprise your friends with a nice snack overlooking the White Cliffs. Wander the trails as most are interconnected join back to a main one. The England Coast Path-South East provides kilometers (miles) and days worth of hiking and links various cities. From the port, consider any of the below options. Walk along the Marine Parade, buy an ice cream, or find a bench and watch the ferries and shipping boats navigate the English Channel. Meaning if you click and buy some of the products linked in this post, I may earn a small percentage at no extra cost to you.īelow are a few things to do when visiting the White Cliffs of Dover for a day.ĭover is a small town on the southeast coast of England. Note: This post contains affiliate links. A windbreaker or jacket may be a good idea as the weather can change at moment’s notice.
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The coastal winds will keep you cool in the spring as you walk along the footpaths to get a better look. The small beaches in the area aren’t known for overly warm temperatures. As you can imagine, the chalky white cliffs plunging into the blue hues of the Atlantic Ocean leaves visitors with calming senses.ĭon’t put on your flip-flops and shorts just yet. “We’ll Meet Again” is particularly tearjerking when you consider its wartime context: “We’ll meet again, Don’t know where, don’t know when, But I know we’ll meet again, some sunny day.A perfect day trip from London, The White Cliffs of Dover is a geological beauty. And we’d listen to Vera sing to the troops on a Friday night, on the radio.” In fact, I can remember it was desert, we’d, in the nighttime, on Saturday nights when Vera Lynn come on we’d get the radio off the truck and we’d cover ourselves up with tarp and turn it on. “All the war, even the worst of times, we had a good short wave radio system.
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“We were very lucky,” said one such soldier, William Pitcher, in a 1996 oral history. To fully fathom the meaning of Vera Lynn to the British, you have to picture a British soldier, in the depths of Britain’s despair at the outset of World War II, hunkered down somewhere in North Africa, wondering how, if ever, it would end and whether, if ever, he’d get home.