I'm a Chilham man myself; there's no more peaceful spot in the nation than this hilltop village's square, birdsong tooting, surrounded by black-and-white cottages, orchards and oasts.
0844 800 3099, http://bit.ly/19YjHyn Take a string of canvas cottages surrounded by fields, hedges, trees and birdsong.
When moving to allow ships to pass, it plays the sound of chimes and birdsong as coloured lights flash.
Mostly an endless symphony of birdsong, as friendly, brightly painted sparrows, pigeons, and native birds like the gaudy conde or the grey white eye, zozo maniok, march across your breakfast table and swoop to feed from your hands.
Stepping out of the house in the morning to greet our neighbours – wild horses on one side, donkeys on the other – with nothing but birdsong filling the air, I felt a sense of adventure you normally only get with wild camping.
Each room too has a doorbell, which rings out birdsong every time a maid comes (and come they do, about four times a day, with towels, pillows, soap, and pillows again) but it's often drowned by the actual birdsong outside.
The proposed 367 metre (1,200ft) bridge, inspired by actor Joanna Lumley's dream of "a place with no noise or traffic where the only sounds are birdsong and bees buzzing and the wind in the trees, and below the steady rush of water", will be designed by Thomas Heatherwick, who created the flaming and many-petalled Olympic cauldron.
He turns off the radio and notices a concert of birdsong and mooing.
Mr Harding writes of the way the ocean fog "poured across fairways…salting everything in a cold mist", and of the "liquid, silvery" phrase of birdsong, "so limpid it seemed without a source".
The first line describes a wet evening in Paris, tipping its cap at Mr Faulks's most famous novels, "Birdsong" and "Charlotte Gray", which are set largely in France.
As he buries his family to the whistle of birdsong, Mr Likoka has no idea that Congo's civil war was supposed to have ended this month.Congo's war is horrible and complex.
