Little Satmar Holiday Park

Little Satmar Holiday Park is just up the road from the village of Capel-le-Ferne, which has a weekly farmers’ market and a clifftop café offering some tasty views; but the place is best known as the site of the Battle of Britain memorial, a moving sculpture of an airman gazing out over the Channel. Don’t miss a ticket to ride the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Light Railway: cute steam trains a third the normal size, which offer a fun, hour-long jaunt between the pretty town of Hythe and the desolate yet dramatic landscape at Dungeness. For a train on an entirely different scale, head to Ashford, where you can pick up the Eurostar to Lille, Paris or Brussels. In fact, Little Satmar Holiday Park is a great site for anyone who fancies a short hop over to the continent: if you’re taking the car, the Channel Tunnel is only three miles away, or you can easily get to Dover to pick up a ferry. Dover itself is worth an outing, for a tour of its historic castle and museums, or head inland, where you’ll find the World of Butterflies at MacFarlane’s Nurseries and Garden Centre, and Port Lympne Zoo Park, Mansion and Gardens, the nearest you’ll get to an authentic African safari experience within these fair shores.