It’s the Transport Weekend in Faversham this weekend, 17th & 18th May.

Two years ago this weekend we made our first visit to Kent.

We booked a week’s holiday with an old friend who wanted to revisit Kent because of her childhood memories of holidays with her grandparents on the North Kent Coast. We were experiencing Kent for the first time. We were also trying to answer a question: “Should we move house to somewhere new and make a fresh start or should we stay in the place we had lived for the last 24 years ?”

Our holiday base was Broadstairs but one of our trips out was to Faversham.

Faversham looked lovely that day. Full of activity and sunshine. It was the annual Transport Weekend with vintage cars and buses lining the streets.

Lots of independent, interesting-looking shops, a brewery, Creek Creative and wonderful Thames Barges moored on the creek. Wow, it was certainly ticking lots of boxes for our “Would this be a good place to live?” question.

We spent a very enjoyable holiday exploring the coast from Whitstable round to Ramsgate and Deal, and inland to Canterbury. We even managed a trip to Dungeness to see Derek Jarman’s Garden.

Kent was now high on our list of possible places.

When we returned home to Wiltshire we decided to put our house up for sale. We still had not made the final decision as to where we would live but we still had time to sort things out.

Well, no.

The house sold in three days and a mere three weeks after our first visit to Faversham we were back, looking for somewhere to live.

Of all the many places we had visited and researched, Faversham was the place that we both felt at home on our first visit.

We have lived here for 18 months now. It was a whirlwind move from Wiltshire but the start of a wonderful adventure in Kent.