'I want to dance with joy': a beach cabin escape on Kent's Isle of Sheppey

The newly minted pleasure of a getaway in a cosy cabin on a deserted beach is just the tonic after lockdown
Plus six more remote English cabins

Jet skis are fizzing under the Sheppey Crossing as I drive through the two arches that mark the entrance to the island. It is not the most obvious place to bring my mum for our first post-lockdown break. The Isle of Sheppey, on the north-east coast of Kent, an hour from London, is a place often dismissed by people who call the locals “Swampies” and believe the island is one long sprawl of chalet parks. More fool them – they are missing out. Sheppey is a place of wide skies where lapwings in shot satin party dresses pirouette across the fields.