Skabour Sunday

First stop of the morning was up to meet fellow Meldrew Cal Price at the Cliff Top Café. 

I was a little late as I was stuck behind a tractor and trailer through Saltwood and all the way onto the A20.  These things are massive. The one I followed today was over half the road wide through the village. Oncoming vehicles were almost up the walls and banks to make space and he was on the pavement with the nearside wheels.  Too big for our roads.

Once clear of this road block I had a run down the A20 to Capel and the Café. Cal had already arrived and I parked up in the bike park area. He'd ordered but the queue was too long for me to bother. Gradually the queue got longer and longer.

I don't usually go to this café as despite having plentiful outdoor seating they are anti-dog.  As a dog owner I have been spoken to very rudely by one of the staff before I had even set foot on their land.  Between the café and the 150ft drop into the sea, there is a public footpath. I was still on that. I see they have put up loads of signs now.  They'll still not get any of my money.

As we were leaving I took a photo of some of the scooters that would later be seen at Skabour.

From there we went down into Folkestone and parked up by the harbour.  My round for tea and coffee and we went to The Hatch overlooking the harbour. With the tide in the boats were at anchor and not hull down into the silt.  We met Cal's son and daughter in law. They went for a walk around and we met them again to go and see the Scooter Parade.

Skabour has been running some years and Ska and Reggae has long been associated with skinheads (not to be confused with ultra right wing sc*m) and scooters. It is based in The Grand Burstin Hotel by the harbour.

We had a look around the scooters that had turned up and I took a load of photos. Some here and some will be on Flickr.

Once the two-stroke smoke in the air had evaporated we went back to where we had parked and went our separate ways.

Today I only added about 25 miles to Vera's odometer.