Ashley Butler

摘要

They call Kent "the garden of England" and, driving through its back lanes last spring, I could see why. The trees were bursting with fresh new leaves and the hedges overflowing with cow parsley and daffodils. As we clattered about under sun-dappled bowers in Ashley's Land Rover, the scene around us looked every bit as if it had sprung straight from a Tourist Board brochure. After a 20-minute drive, we stopped in the quaintly named Perry Woods, four miles inland of Faversham, and parked next to a barn directly opposite the Rose & Crown pub, purveyors of the best steak-and-kidney pie in the county.