we were also on BBC radio Kent on november 30 this year at about 6.30 am for a live interview and we were on BBC South East Today on november 29 with a very nice TV performance. Mr Charlie Rose from the BBC kindly came over to Belgium to do a report on us as regular Tunbridge Wells visitors. It was most entertaining and BBC South East gave us about 4 minutes airtime . I must say Mr Rose is a real nice gentlemen and i sure hope he enjoyed his short stay here with us.
here's a little story about how our "tunbridge wells love affair" started off...
back in the ninetees, when i was still a student, some former classmates of me and myself, visited the town of Tunbridge Wells. our visit back then was according to a first working experience project from school. we were so keen on the town we visited Tunbridge Wells 4 times in 2 years time (seems like the love affair already started in those days )
years went by and i got myself a job and a fabulous wife... meanwhile, we got 3 wonderful children...
as we were always in some way connected and attracted by the beauty of England, at a certain moment i started telling stories to my wife about Tunbridge Wells. of course she was very curious about all the nice things i told her about the spa town. at the beginning of january 2009 we decided to give it a go, booked ourselves a ferry and off we were... the first place where we stayed over was Hawkenbury Farm. this is a really nice B&B but unfortunately not really suitable for children... nevertheless we had a very nice time and i re-discovered all the towns' delights. my wife and children immediately were very attracted to Tunbridge Wells as well, this came in rather handy
after that first weekend we were ready for much more of this! we searched the internet in order to get ready for much more trips to Tunbridge Wells. with a little help from some great people from the Tunbridge Wells Football Club we discovered Manor Court Farm in Ashurst. (i'll do some extra articles on the football club, our favourite pub and the B&B we always stay over later on, there are some nice stories to be told about them as well)
the rest of the story about our family and Tunbridge Wells you can consider as a "neverending love story". since the beginning of 2009 we try to visit the town at least every 2 months for weekends, short breaks and larger holidays and we made lots of friends in the town and it's surroundings.
meanwhile, we were in the local press as well as regular tunbridge wells visitors, later on i'll post some links where you can see and hear us, it's really amusing
This is in brief how we fell in love with Tunbridge Wells. of course there's much more to be told, visiting Tunbridge Wells as much as possible is our main goal in life.
unfortunately, our favourite pub, The Ragged Trousers at The Pantiles, doesn't have a website, but i can assure you the pub is highly recommended by the whole of our family!
more links to come, but just try out the ones above and you'll already get a good view on what we mean
People ask us: why Tunbridge Wells? By making this blog, we want to show everyone why we love Tunbridge Wells so much. In the next couple of days, i'll post some pictures and some nice stories about our holidays in this marvellous town. After you've seen the pictures and read the stories, you'll see what we mean
A special column in this blog will be dedicated to the best football club in the world, Tunbridge Wells Football Club. The club deserves any credit they can get, it is run by some wonderful people who would give their heart and soul for the club, it's the real heart of Kentish football.
We sure hope you'll enjoy this blog and please feel free to leave comments to improve this blog.
Ik ben philip dhont - cindy naudts - amy, sara, andrew
Ik ben een man en woon in vilvoorde (belgium) en mijn beroep is opvoeder.
Ik ben geboren op 23/10/1971 en ben nu dus 53 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: tunbridge wells, football, petanque.
a belgian family with a heart for tunbridge wells
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