London Ashford Airport or to use its' former name, Lydd Airport, is a small regional airport which does flights to Le Touquet www.lyddair.com and pleasure flights over Romney Marsh. Champagne and canapes and an overview of the fascinating and relatively unknown area of Kent seems an awesome idea..
I travel on the Marsh Link frequently, a cute little two car diesel train which meanders across Romney Marsh to the small but perfectly formed medieval town of Rye, over the border in East Sussex.
The marsh is flat, being reclaimed from the sea and full of drainage ditches. The sheep which graze here are supposed to have a particular salty tang to their meat.
Romney Marsh is Dr Syn country and if you ever had to learn Walter de la Mare's poem at school.. "five and twenty ponies trotting through the dark, brandy for the parson and baccy for the clerk ".. this area was the haunt of smugglers.
The new wind farm fits in, as another eeriely beautiful part of the landscape.
Seeing it all from the air would be a whole new perspective.
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