Dover, through an American tourist's eyes...

• Guest 684

  • Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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  14 May 2009     16:2321259
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  Oh dear, a melancholy treatise on our hometown through a cosmopolitan American's eyes, courtesy of The New York Times:
  
  http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/in-dover-a-not-quite-grand-start/?apage=3
  
  We soooooo need to get our act together.
  
  Andy
  
  PS: reminds me of the time a few years back (when the town was, even then, far far better than now), when a nice American couple stopped me in the Market Square and asked where they could, since they were in the original, authentic town of Dover, go to eat a Dover Sole.
  
  With a heavy heart I directed them to Dunkerleys in Deal (as nice as it is), leaving the pair aghast they you couldn't eat a fresh Dover Sole in the town of its name (this was pre-Cullin's Yard and many yonks before Dave Flynn's fine Allotment restaurant).
  
  One of a million examples of the extended rot of dear old Dubris and its exhaustingly dragged-out cultural death-throes.
  
  Come on everyone! Sort this out!
• Guest 668

  • Registered: 13 Apr 2008
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  14 May 2009     16:4021260
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  I'm left with the feeling, 'it could have been a lot worse!' They didn't bump into the tenants drinking yobs with attack dogs at the ready!
• Guest 655

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  14 May 2009     17:1421263
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  Not flattering and as for that encounter with the children..... no way to know if they were local or even Brits.
  
  Says nice things about my local though!!!
• Guest 653

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  15 May 2009     07:1521292
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  Maybe Peter should have tourism leaflets in the bar for visiting travellers, so they can find out about Dover and what's here.
  
  I'd have thought the guest house mentioned would have been able to direct him, they have good local knowledge.
  
  Walking in the rain isn't much fun for most people, but the walk to St. Margaret's is beautiful and lunch at the Coastguard is reward in itself.
  
  
  
  
  
  Roger
• Guest 671

  • Registered: 4 May 2008
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  16 May 2009     10:0421389
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  The Crypt served the most excellent Dover Sole. So good, many visitors would come from miles to taste the local fresh fish aptly named after Dover.
  It probably, wasn't caught here, not all year round anyway, but if any restaurant used the best tasting fish, my opinion, to attract visitors, I believe they would be squids in.
  "My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"