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November
5th is celeberated as Bonfire day, i can call this as UK Diwali?????. The
surroundings are very much similar to diwali, ppl bursting
crackers......
The sky is lit up
with crackers firing up from many places around.......
Our actual plan to
the Leeds castle was on October 30, we has planned for the trip
and we happened to have a look at Leeds castle sight again, which
we saw some 2 weeks before we planned, we sighted something that
said fireworks spectacular show, suddenly all our heads were up,
we were praying, let that be on a weekend, we did some digging on
the site to find out the date, Alas......it was on Nov 5th
Saturday, we were the happiest, immediately we booked the tickets
to the show.....(the site said the tickets are fast selling)..as
we did not want to miss it.....
We were all set for
the next weeks spectacular.........
There
are trains every half hour from London Victoria station, check out
the site
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk for details of the train and the
fare.
There are also
coaches that operate specials for this show from victoria.....but
we did not want just a straight ride, we will go by ourselves.....
Get the train to
Bearsted, the journey is approx 1.01 hours.
Once you reach
Bearsted, you need to go to Leeds castle, a notice board in the
platform said, there is going to be a bus at 10:30, but we were
very early, we started home at 6:45 and reached bearsted station
at 9:00 itself, as we had a map of the location, we got it from
Google, we all decided to walk, its only 3.3 miles.
The morning was very
cold, unlike london the country side was wonderful and chilly
winds were awesome...
we enjoyed the
lovely walk along the winding roads......to reach the Castle.....
Only place of
interest there is the Leeds castle......
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The frequency of
buses are very low, and as the board said, there seems to be only
a bus every 1 hour....so take care and plan your trip, i did not
see any Black cabs as well, if you love walking, then this not a
deterrent factor.....enjoy walking......
We reached the
Castle by 10:00 Am only to be heard that the castle is open only
from 12:00Pm because of the shows and the Fun fairs, its open from
10 on other days, but do have a look at the site
www.leeds-castle.com
before you can start....that gives you the exact schedule.....
Again we started
exploring all the roads, and struggled hard to spend time, at last
we pushed the clock to 12:00 and finally got an entry through the
castle gates...
Went around the
castle, its lovely lakes and parks...took photographs, there were
so many people on that day.
Finally
it was the time for the show, secured a decent place to view the
fireworks, also i purchased a Tripod for photographing the
fireworks, so set it all and all were ready.
The show began at
6:45 and went on till 7:15.
It was really
amazing and awesome, really worth for 13£, and returned back home
at 11:00Pm.
London Victoria to Bearsted
- 1.01 Hours (13£ Return).
Bearsted to Leeds
Castle - 10Mins by bus. (1.30£ ) or enjoy a walk for 45 mins.
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