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All the properties have packs with local information, giving suggestions for great pubs and restaurants, exciting days out, timings, and emergency contacts – here are a few that we recommend – we could not list them all!!

Food & supplies

Rye is quickly becoming a foodie heaven, the local scallops have been branded – Rye Bay Scallops, and a festival has been created to honour our local catch!  

We do suggest that you arrange an Ocado or Tesco Direct as both deliver and can take the stress and meet you on your day of arrival.  www.tesco.com  www.ocado.com see bookings for full postcodes of properties.

Rye boasts a wonderful fresh fish shop, butcher, cheese shop, and green grocer. On Wednesday it hosts a growing farmer’s market www.ryemarket.org.uk and the nearby Winchelsea Farm Kitchen gives Daylesford Organic a run for its money. Eating out? You’ll be spoilt for choice from fresh fish and chips, to the boutique hotel heaven of The George hotel in Rye, or the laid-back shabby chic charm of The Ship Inn. A five minute walk from the property finds you in the award-winning, The Gallivant, which offers excellent family-friendly lunches, dinners and BBQ’s on a seaside deck.

The nearest little piece of heaven is Salt Farm Shop www.saltsfarmshop.co.uk  01797 226540
Open every day. at the turning to Camber from Rye, selling illy coffee takeaways (or have in) while selecting local (like the next field) lamb and other meats and vegetables and other deli finds, with a few foodie indulgencies and for those who really cannot be bothered to cook – ‘Cook’ meals.   The village shop in Camber provide the basics along with a post office and papers.

Award winning local butcher Jamie Wickens and deli can be found at the Ship Winchelsea Beach www.shipwinchelseabeach.com and deli delights at www.ryedeli.co.uk.  Alternatively make some bread! Enrol in one of the fabulous cooking courses at the Lighthouse bakery www.lighthousebakery.co.uk in Bodiam or participate in one of Sarah Raven’s gardening and cookery courses at Perch Hill – www.sarahraven.com

Sightseeing 

If history takes your fancy we are surrounded by castles Bodiam Castle, Sissinghurst, Knole, Igtham Mote, the home of Rudyard Kipling, Batemans, Lamb House in Rye, all details can be found at  www.nationaltrust.org.uk.  Visit the stunning gardens created by the late Christopher Lloyd. His home and the grounds open to visitors www.greatdixter.co.uk

Dungeness – 20 mins, is an eerie but enchanting place, the only desert in the UK dwarfed by the nuclear power station it was the home of filmaker Derek Jarman’s and his famous garden plus the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Light Railway, a minature railway station which is a great way to see Romney Marsh www.rhdr.org.uk

Sporting Activities

Pampering is what it is about – and Rye has some great treatments – Fantastic facials and products at www.ryesanctuary.co.uk more pampering at the Aveda Rye retreat – www.ryeretreat.co.uk, or immerse yourself in a new parfumerie in the high street – Violetta – owned by the beauty editor of Red and Elle magazines, it is heaven.  Or if you can’t even move, try the fabulous travelling masseur, Sophie Kingsley, www.massageformums.com/massage who will come to any of the houses. 

Travel

Train times www.thetrainline.com for all train travel – high speed train from London to Ashford 35 minutes!

Day trip to France – take the eurostar to Paris or Lille  www.eurostar.com  from Ashford or take your car on the eurotunnel from Folkestone www.eurotunnel.com

For local and tourist information visit www.ryesussex.co.uk

Website design & hosting www.webtec-design.co.uk 

For other special places to stay visit Alistair Sawdays, Special Escapes   www.special-escapes.co.uk/places/bsc4891