My 'adopted' Home Town

Robert, my turtle friend, over at Middle Zone Musings has tagged me (again!). This time he wants to know about our home-towns. I told him we had two Home Towns, the one we both came from in The Netherlands, Bergen op Zoom (will write My Home Town post on that next) and the one we've adopted as Home Town: the lovely village of Charing in Kent UK. The main reason for me to include this post is to introduce the new fixed page on the Stop/Start blog: In and around The School House Garden, where I spent many 'after work' holidays.

We moved here, by chance ended up in this lovely village is more accurate, May 2000. First in a small apartment, the next year to a large house right on the A20 and in February 2002 we moved to the School House, right in the middle of the school grounds. (It's summer holiday now, hooray, nice and quiet!)

We live and work in Charing, our showroom is 100 meters across the road, handy for my lunch-break. According to Richard C Charing is a 'villagy village': still many shops and businesses and loads of people 'around', not just a sleeping-commuters village. There are: two convenient stores, one library, one hotel, two B&B's, three pubs, a doctors surgery and pharmacist, two accountants, a hair-dresser, a post-office, a florist, a wooden flooring shop - of course -, 8 restaurants, 3 garages, a factory freezing fresh vegetables and many home-based businesses. And a school, complete with notorious school-run twice a day.

We loved Charing from the day we first set foot here, we still love it and will always love it. And hopefully we will fulfil my item 3 of the Gotta-Get-Goals meme here too.

Next post will be on our Home-Town Bergen op Zoom: Traditions, traditions.

Comments

[Robert Hruzek]

Thanks, Karin! Sounds like a very nice, quiet place to live.

[Robyn McMaster]

Karin, Charing looks charming a lovely new venture for you. Looks like you fit in very well!

[Karin H.]

Hi Robyn

It sure is a lovely village and we are still glad we 'ended-up' here.
As for fitting right in, the rest of the village is slowly getting used to those two 'daft' Dutchies ;-) (As long as we don't talk double Dutch)

Karin H.