(but it gets hella cold there)
― stevie, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 12:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm amazed so many people have been! How come I've never heard anyone mention it before?
I really want to go at some point in November. Is this a good idea, or should I wait until the spring?
-- Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:26 (Yesterday) Link
I don't know why no-ones mentioned it before. Strange. I've been a few times and it's great, everything everyone says upthread. Also good place to hide if you're a fugitive from justice I always thought.
Go now to get full bleakness effect definitely, but most of the year round it's pretty bleak (in a good way).
The Britannia pub is open all year round I'm sure. Therefore FAP here is surely necessary.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
that little train is dangerous, at least a couple deaths since we were there 3 years ago or so
It's not the train that's dangerous it's people driving their cars into the train! 2 train drivers have died when cars crashed into them at crossings in the last few years but I don't remember any other deaths.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
And here's the story - 2003 and 2005. Pretty tragic.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4672231.stm
fucking hell, this place sounds amazing. four ATPs at camber and i've NEVER FUCKING BEEN.
mind you, not sure when i'd have fitted it around the drinking and consumption of superhuman amounts of weed.
and the odd band.
still.
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I went on an ATP Sunday, when the thought of more drinking/ other activities wasn't too appealing. Dungeness was perfect for clearing the head and invigorating the body!
― Neil S, Thursday, 25 October 2007 11:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Just been this weekend. Stayed with a friend who lives in one of the lighthouse cottages. Loved it, need to go again as we only tramped up as far as The Pilot Inn. Sound mirrors next time for sure, and more of a nosey at the power station.
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Sunday, 13 October 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
Is there any good way of getting there from London without a car? Looks like train - bus - train in both directions.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 11:46 (nine years ago) link
I had a dream about this recently. No kidding. It went weird.
― i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 11:49 (nine years ago) link
getting the train to Rye (one change) and then a bus from there seems an okay route.
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 13:32 (nine years ago) link
In my dream I got there at night and ended up having to walk down a subterranean passageway. I forget what happened next, but it was all fairly haunting
Obviously if you don't use the RH&D light railway you hate fun
― i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 13:47 (nine years ago) link
So yeah. Train to Sandling (only two letters from that most delightful of wading birds), 2km walk to Hythe, light railway, done. Birdwatching & nuclear power-plant gawping fitted as standard.
― i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
Thanks!
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 13:59 (nine years ago) link
Is it a stay for a week's holiday sort of place? (In my head, I imagine it could be incredible for a weekend ... but feels a bit of a gamble for a week, in a kind of Marmite-y way).
― djh, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
go for it
― imago, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
Any specific places to rent, ideally for a long weekend?
― djh, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
Anyone?
― djh, Monday, 18 June 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
How soon are you thinking of visiting?
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 03:38 (five years ago) link
Probably September?
― djh, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 06:17 (five years ago) link
Couchsurfing is an option. I think most holiday rentals in Dungeness are on Airbnb. And several property owners rent through www.mulberrycottages.com - if those are beyond budget I'd still recommend staying near enough to do a couple of day trips.
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 09:35 (five years ago) link
I always get Dungeness mixed up with Dunedin - whisky/name for Edinburgh/place in NZ. It just sounds kind of Scottish.
― Leaghaidh am brĂ³n an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 12:56 (five years ago) link
It does! Other Scottish towns include Thurrock and Cannock.
― Tim, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 12:58 (five years ago) link
More topically, I am not sure I'd want to spend a whole week in Dungeness, largely because I think the undoubted pleasures of the one pub might start to wane. I do love it around there though, and might well be tempted to stay in Rye and (as Craig says) spend a good couple of days in the Dungeness area.
― Tim, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 13:01 (five years ago) link
if you decide to walk from say Camber to Dungeness wear appropriate footwear, by which I think I mean walking boots, rather than slightly loose espadrilles. I stopped enjoying our walk along the length of that beach as it changed, after the firing range, from flat broad smooth sands to endless endless sucking draining shingle, and then stayed shingle, then more shingle and the nuclear reactor seemed to be getting further away and there was no escape from the shingle and the sweat was pouring into my eyes.
― woof, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
First third of that walk was lovely though - the vast emptiness out there!
― woof, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
Laurel and Hardy opening the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway:
http://www.laurelandhardy.org/images/loco2.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link
Going there on Sunday.
What should be on my Songs for Dungeness CD-R? (I'm probably thinking mood rather than any actual connection).
― djh, Monday, 23 July 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
https://www.themodernhouse.com/journal/a-residents-guide-to-dungeness/
― ||||||||, Monday, 23 July 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
Will be there this weekend too. If you see a tall pale guy with glasses walking a french bulldog near the Old Lighthouse come say hi :-)
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
I still haven't been to Dungeness and I'm not sure a seemingly never-ending heatwave is the best time to go.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 08:20 (five years ago) link
Ha. No, it doesn't. I'm craving somewhere green with a swimmable river but ...
― djh, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
Such a curious place ... and not quite what I imagined but I can't quite say why.
Certainly, I was hoping to see Jarman's garden with a casual walk-by but was genuinely shocked to see others actually walking through the garden (seemingly uninvited). I vowed to not even take a picture out of respect to the current occupier (his partner, I presume) though took a long distance shot from the miniature railway.
Partly because I find walking on pebbles knackering, I found it difficult to imagine wanting to live there despite a fondness for some of the aesthetic.
― djh, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
Also, didn't see Craigo Boingo.
My throat/chest were fucked too and didn't even have the energy to get to the top of the Old Lighthouse, which was gutting.
― djh, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link