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Date: 19 May 2012 11:28:21
The Independent has an interesting article today - so interesting that in the newsagent I made a swap from my normal Saturday Guardian to the Indy - about Tracey Emin's latest exhibition. The article involved comment from Jeanette Winterson on the way Emin's drawing has developed and a guide of how to best enjoy Margate (and Planet Thanet) in general from Emin.
Now as regular readers will know I am a bit of a fan of Emin's work - although I prefer her textiles to the pencil drawings - and so the exhibition at the Turner Contemporary will see me making the return trip to Kent that I have promised myself for some years. The area of Planet Thanet and East Kent more widely is somewhere I know well. I worked in Thanet for a couple of years and spent the best part of a decade in Herne Bay. So to widen the geographical area a little here are what I would add to Tracey Emin's list.
Broadstairs beach when it's sunny. It is big and commercial enough to be a proper sea side but stuck in time enough to have a quaint and charming feel to it that some other coastal resorts including Margate lack.
Taking the bus through Thanet from Herne Bay. This gives you some great yet surreal views, especially if you sit on the top deck. The cabbage fields particularly have a strange but real beauty.
Sound House record shop in Broadstairs (hoping it is still there) a real record shop with a particularly good folk section.
The walk from Herne Bay to Reculver - you get to look out across the sea, enjoy the windfarm and then after a spot of being in the ruins have lunch at the King Ethelbert pub.
Tankerton slopes - good for just being by the sea.
I could go on but I won't you get the picture. Planet Thanet and the surrounding area is worth an explore - and with the Emin exhibition it is worth going down this summer.