Tunbridge Wells - Royal Spa

Hever Castle - Click to expand Here in the heart of Kent and the south-east is a landscape of rolling hills, wooded valleys, orchards and vineyards and each season yields its treasures in a myriad of colours. Among the quiet byways are splendid castles, gardens and many historic houses, including Chartwell, home of Churchill, England's greatest figure of the 20th century.

Day visits to: Canterbury cathedral and city - the towering, white chalk cliffs of Beachy Head - romantic Hever Castle, home of tragic Queen Anne Boleyn, beheaded by Henry VIII for supposed infidelity, and mother of England's greatest monarch, Queen Elizabeth I - medieval Rye, cobbled streets and smugglers' haunts - Dover Castle, notable for its Roman lighthouse, Anglo-Saxon church, medieval castle and secret underground World War II operation rooms - romantic moated Bodiam Castle surpassed for beauty only by nearby Leeds Castle - Howletts Zoo, sympathetically housing the largest collection of tigers and gorillas in the world - Chatham Naval Dockyard, the most complete 18th century shipyard in the world.