One of the great things of living near Kent is that we can easily drive out to explore the Kentish countryside. We literally live along one of motorways and driving 5 minutes down we are in Kent. In fact sometimes we do our grocery shopping in that direction on weekends. Last weekend we had another bank holiday weekend (May is the best month because there are two bank holidays - hooray). It was a very impromptu trip but on Saturday after lunch I asked K if he wanted to go anywhere. I've got a list of places which I've shortlisted and so he being so easy, said he is fine to drive anywhere but keep the driving time to below one hour each way. I googled again and decided on Penshurst Place and Gardens near Royal Tunbridge Wells. In the gardens It was a 35min drive from where we live and so we set off after lunch at 3pm. We arrived close to 4pm and we managed to buy tickets for both the house and gardens. The house is not very big so we man...