Ramsgate / Margate / Broadstairs - Drunks, Druggies and Rubbish
Ramsgate / Margate / Broadstairs - Drunks, Druggies and Rubbish: Ramsgate, Filthy, rubbish everywhere... even sick on the pavement around the 'royal' harbour, as for the 'beach' we kept our shoes on, I wouldn't walk bare foot here... again, as said before, poor old Ramsgate... broken, down at heel, unloved by it's local authority, unloved by it's population in general, filthy, grotty, decaying. What is going to happen to the Pavilion.... why doesn't Thanet start by sorting out that building and restore it.
Broadstairs is full of drunks, wasn't even lunchtime, but still a slightly better than both Margate and Ramsgate as we didn't see any druggies. Slightly better shops, but the beach again is filthy.
Margate is just full of druggies, as soon as we got there we were pounced on by 3 asking for change/light/and if we want any.... Turner Art Gallery on the front is a joke with the 'rubbish' inside it, and restaurants.... well you would be lucky to find any which isn't a Wetherspoons standard. The beach had sand....but also dog mess, JCB vehicles and rubbish.
DON'T DO the 'Turner and Dickens Walk', it leave one council estate, cross 3 cabbage fields to enter another council estate, call Maragte.... how is this advertised as a historical/peaceful 'walk' - when you get to Margate, you are at the top of 'druggies' alley, and you have to go through it to get to the beach at the bottom, you will see some horrific sights....