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Leisure day trip to England: we watched castles and gardens, the Kent landscape and Canterbury monuments and experienced a "suitable level of enjoyment" as the folks of English Heritage would put it. Sometimes, you simply have to love the English for their way of expressing things.

(Also in the region, Richborough Power Station. Its huge cooling towers will remind you of John Davies' The British Landscape. As the boiler houses are gone, hardly anything is obstructing your view on them. When seen on a clear day from a distant southeasterly place like Walmer shore, Deal, Worth or Sandwich, the cooler's elegant shape dominates the landscape in such a beautiful manner you wouldn't guess this station has been powered with dirt, producing fumes that are said to have corroded car paintwork. Wikipedia has an entry on the employed Orimulsion fuel. I liked the mentioned distant view best, having the cooling towers and chimney nonoverlapping and the sea as a backdrop, and found the available vantage points to worsen the closer I got.)