About Folkestone - It's the place everyone enjoys coming to, where it's easy to turn a few days' break into great experience, where a stroll by the sea, a ramble in the countryside, going shopping, sightseeing, visiting an attraction or event can make just a day excursion out of the ordinary.
Shopping - The pedestrianised shopping area, with its high-street names, leads down to The Lanterns; an area of period architecture and fine speciality shops and cafes. A number of these buildings are rather elegant and have been sympathetically restored, their fascias graced by fine Georgian stone columns. The cobbled old High Street leads down to the
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harbour where it doesn't take much to imagine the sights and sounds of a time gone by.
Things to do - Take a ride on the Victorian Leas Cliff Lift, which hugs the cliff face and connects The Leas with the seafront. Not far from the lower Leas Cliff Lift entrance you'll find The Rotunda, Folkestone's traditional seaside amusements attraction. This is real thrill-a-minute action with go-karts, dodgems, log flume, helter skelter, crazy golf and the archetypal ghost train -don't say you haven't been warned!
For days out with children see: www.kidsdaysout.co.uk/
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