Saturday 30 June Prospect Tower

I was up early this morning made coffee, and sat watching the rabbits playing in the field, they are so cute. Andrew cooked us smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for breakfast, then we went out to visit World of Butterflies just outside Folkestone. Spent a lot of time watching gorgeous Swallowtails etc. Stunning creatures, some of which had wings resembling Mother of Pearl, I could have stayed all day. The owner showed us the recently hatched ones, their wings had not dried yet, so they couldn’t fly, a couple of them attempted to, I held two for a minute before they went back in their hut, if they land on the ground the can’t take off again. We went on down to Sandgate where we found a really good tapas restaurant called Tinto’s, had excellent food there including gorgeous Moroccan lamb with apricot crème fraiche. Walked along the sea front afterwards, not for long as another torrential downpour had us scurrying back to the car. Back at the tower we read for a while, had a nap, then dressed for dinner. Andrew had booked a table at Ardennes an excellent restaurant in Faversham, smoked salmon cheesecake, crab and leek terrine, venison, fillet steak in smoked oyster sauce, orange and treacle tart and delectable home made lemon meringue ice cream. A bottle of Sacred Head shiraz accompanied the meal, everything was delicious, we’ll eat here again when we are in Kent, I am sure. We drove back to the tower to relax with more wine and some classical music, I love the peacefulness of these Landmarks set miles away from towns.