Local Activities
Hythe Swimming Pool
If you fancy donning your inflatable arm bands, and dusting off your swimming cossie Hythe Swimming Pool, has a 25m main pool and a separate teaching pool. Swimming lessons held at the pool are extremely popular, and there is a fitness suite and training room for those not keen on getting wet.
Hythe Swimming Pool, Sea Front, South Road, Hythe, Kent CT21 6AR
You can find details of opening times and swimming classes on the Shepway council website: http://www.shepway.gov.uk under 'Leisure and culture'.
Sene Valley Golf Club
I have never played a round of golf in my life, but apparently even I could appreciate the scenic views of the English Channel that this course has to offer. For those that know about these sorts of things, although not long this course does have it’s fair share of blind tees making it tricky for those new to it, and it’s exposed position can add to the challenge on windy days. Fore!
Sene Valley Golf Club, Sene, Folkestone, Kent, CT18 8BL
No website yet, but you can find several reviews of this course online: http://www.englishgolf-courses.co.uk/kent/senevalley.php
Hythe Rowing Boats
You might get a little bit further along the canal by foot in an hour, but it wouldn’t involve nearly so much water or laughs. Throughout the summer, you can hire rowing boats from a small hut next to the canal footbridge leading to Ladies Walk. Just be prepared to be overtaken by ducks!
Royal Military Canal Footbridge, leading to Ladies Walk, Hythe
No website, but times and prices for rowing boat hire are displayed on a board outside the hut.
Dungeness Nature Reserve
There is nowhere quite like Dungeness, and from the RSPB’s reserve you can really appreciate the uniqueness of this area and it’s attractiveness to our feathered friends. The reserve covers a large area of shingle interspersed with pools and a lake and provides a visitors centre as well as several hides, and nature trails. Don’t forget your binoculars, and wrap up warm!
Dungeness RSPB Nature Reserve, Dungeness Road, Lydd, Kent TN29 9PN
You can find out all about the facilities and latest sightings at Dungeness on the RSPB’s website: http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/d/dungeness/index.asp
Herons Park & Lydd International Raceway
For those of you that like your activities to be of the slightly more extreme variety, Herons Park has to be the place to go. Karting Minimotos, 4x4s, paintball and clay pigeon shooting - all good fun, muddy and thrilling. If you’d feel safer just watching, there is always a packed calendar of events that you can go and be a spectator at, usually for free.
Herons Park, Dengemarsh Road, Lydd, Kent, TN29 9JH
Visit the Herons Park website for details of the current calendar and to see what’s on offer: http://www.heronspark.com
LyddAir Fly & Dine
Okay, so perhaps this activity could also be a ‘Place to Eat’, but either way it looks like fun to me. Lydd Air now offer lunch and dinner Fly ‘n’ Dines. Whichever flight you choose will begin with a welcome drink, and a briefing from your Captain before your 20 minute flight over the Romney Marshes and Dungeness Peninsula. Back on terra firma you will enjoy a silver service meal at the restaurant. Any birthdays or anniversarys coming up soon?
Lyddair, Lydd Airport, Lydd, Romney Marsh, Kent, TN29 9QL
You can find out much more about the flights on offer by visiting the LyddAir website at: http://www.lyddair.com/flyanddine.html