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“ContentsGreen River Canoes 4

Introduction 6

3 Day Garden of England Trip 9

Where We Stay 14

Canoeing 17

Hiking 19

Green River CanoesWe provide Inn-to-Inn Guided Canoeing Trips on beautiful calm green rivers in the county of Kent, often called the garden of England. This brochure describes the following trips: A 2 Nights/3 Days Trip. The web page gives the latest prices and dates for the trips along with a map and many more photographs.

All our trips are guided. Our guests will be accompanied on the river and trail by an experienced guide who knows the area and rivers well. Our other guide will accompany us in the background by driving our vehicle between lodgings. When necessary this vehicle will be transferring our luggage, meeting us for lunch and generally being available as and when needed.

All the accommodation on our trips is in small local Hotels, Chambre D'Hotes or B&Bs:

All our trip prices include transfers, canoe hire, accommodation (with breakfasts) all lunches and all evening meals.

Trips come in two sizes: with up to 7 guests we will have 2 guides and with between 8 and 14 guests we will have 3 guides (2 on the river & trail). Larger groups can be accommodated by request.

IntroductionTake your time in examining the summary page for each trip and then look at the day-to-day schedule and the description of the hotels we use. This should give you a good idea of what to expect from each trip.

The Prices and Dates page is self explanatory and the Details and Queries page may also answer some of the more technical questions you might have.

If you have further questions then please do not hesitate to contact us, we are only to happy to help.

In particular if the dates we've scheduled don't fit your requirements or you would like to change the schedule in some way then we will do our best to help you.

If you are a group of 4 or more then we are also happy to arrange a private trip for you. Just provide us with the dates you would like, the trip your are interested in (with any schedule changes you require) and we will do our utmost to provide it. Although our regular and scheduled trips have a maximum of 14 guests and 3 guides, larger groups can be accommodated with private and custom trips.

3 Day Garden Of England Trip

This is a 2 Night, 3 Day trip where we spend a long week-end (or a mid-week break) exploring the trails and rivers of the County of Kent in S.E. England.

If you require a further night before departure then we will happily arrange this for you.

This trip aims to explore the south eastern corner of England in the County of Kent: often known as the Garden of England.

Over the trip we will aim to canoe on the River Stour, outside Canterbury and on the Medway.

In addition we will also hike a couple of trails in the area: in particular a section of the Pilgrim's Way (famous from Chaucer, and also known as the North Downs Way) and also a section of the Kent coast trail where we will stride over the White Cliffs of Dover overlooking the channel.

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Day to Day Schedule

Day 1. Arrival and first meeting. 

We will meet at our hotel in the early evening and go over the details of the trip before settling down to dinner. If some of our guests arrive in the afternoon then we'd be happy to include a short walk for them (also guided), perhaps a city walk in Faversham itself, or a longer walk out onto Faversham Creek and the Oare Marshes.

Day 2. Canoeing the Stour and striding the White Cliffs

After a hearty breakfast we will drive to Fordwich to rendezvous with our canoe outfitter for our first paddle. We will take a leisurely meander down the river to Grove Ferry, or possibly onto Pluck's Gutter.

We will then get ourselves together for a sustaining lunch before embarking on an afternoon hike on the White Cliffs aiming to finish in a suitable pub by the early evening.

A short drive will take us back to our hotel for the evening in plenty of time for dinner.

Day 3. Paddling the Medway and Hiking the PIlgrim's Way

After breakfast we will drive to our put-in on the Medway river and begin our second paddle of the trip. Once again we will find somewhere to have our picnic lunch.

In the afternoon we will walk along part of the Pilgrim's Way route along the ridges of the North Downs, posssibly finding a Plantagenet grave in a remote church along the way. If we are determined we can once again ensure the days walk finishes at a suitable pub.

 

At the end of the day we shall make our farewells and return to our base before departing.

Except, that is, for those guests who would like to stay over a further night.  We will instead have a convivial dinner and talk about the events of the day before retiring.

Day 4. Farewells and the time to leave

For those of you who require a further night we will have a leisurely breakfast before we say our farewells and depart. For those who have a morning to spare we will include another short walk, perhaps in the local, and famous Blean Woods, or in the city of Canterbury.

Where We Stay

The Sun Inn, Faversham, Kent

We shall be staying in the country market town of Faversham, 50 miles south of London on the south east coast. With plenty of history from Roman times through to it's use as a capital for Saxon Kings. Later it became famous for its Gunpowder Factories and in time Brewery. It is the home of Britains oldest brewery.

These days the town has plenty of interest as you walk around. Old buildings, small individual shops, the walks down by the creek and of course its pubs. The town has a lively market on Tuesday,

Friday and Saturday mornings and you can visit the Shepherd Neame brewery. The local church of St. Mary's is famous for an unusual flying spire and reputedly the tomb of King Stephen. The surrounding countryside is famous for its fruits, in particular apples and hops. A short distance from town is the national collection of fruit trees with over 2000 varieties of apples alone.

Canoeing

All the canoes for the trips are provided by us and include paddles and a life-jacket. The price is included in the trip.

We always prefer open Canadian style canoes, which are paddled in tandem - with two people aboard (usually). If you prefer to paddle solo then this can be arranged. These canoes are especially suited for the calm water conditions we will be paddling on and are stable and safe. They allow plenty of room for yourself and your stuff.

From time to time we get clients who wish to paddle a Kayak. We can arrange this for you if you prefer but we do stress that the rivers we canoe do not really warrant the use of a kayak and we feel tandem paddling in a canoe is the way to go.

Most of our clients have been canoeing before but we will insist on reviewing safety procedures at the beginning of paddling each day and revise paddling strokes for those who haven't paddled for a while or have paddled on lakes rather than rivers for example.

For those who have never paddled before their will be plenty of time for lessons as we go. These rivers are ideal places for learning.

If time and the inclination allows we can also practise other paddling procedures such as Eddy Turns, Peeling Out and Ferrying.

The clients will not be expected to lift or carry canoes at any time.

Hiking

Although the main focus of the trips will be on the canoeing we will have plenty of time for short walks and longer hikes.

Where possible we will walk to and from the river, although this is not compulsory.

In the appropriate season when early mornings are light we can opt to go for a pre-breakfast walk. The length and timing of the walk will depend on a consensus reached between those that wish to walk, how early we wish to rise and the time of year.

G R E E N R I V E R

Green River CanoesWe provide Guided Inn-to-Inn Canoeing Holidays to the south of France in the Perigord, Lot, Ardeche and Tarn regions and to the Ardennes in Belgium and to Kent, the Garden of England.

We provide hand-crafted vacations to combine a pleasant activity, canoeing, with an insight into the regional history and natural history whilst enjoying the local foods and wines.

All our holidays comprise of mostly canoeing with some (often optional) hiking. The itinerary is planned but is flexible enough to be changed on the day if required.

All our holidays are guided. Our guests will be accompanied on the river and trail by an experienced guide who knows the area and rivers well. Our other guide will accompany us in the background by driving our vehicle between lodgings. When necessary this vehicle will be transferring our luggage, meeting with us for lunch and generally being available as and when needed.