Whitstable in County Kent has always been famous for its oysters. Even the Romans loved the molluscs from Britannia.
In the heyday of oyster farming, 80 oyster fishermen pulled more than 50 million oysters out of the sea every year.

Every year the fishermen of Whistable thank you with a festival for catch and safe return - since 2022 no longer in July, but in mid-September. 
Then it's time for the big oyster parade, where the inhabitants of the town dressed up and walk through the main street.

Or for the oyster competition, the tug-of-war in the mud, the crab hunting or the Grotta Day: Here hollowed out earth mounds from sand and mud are decorated on the beach with oyster shells and illuminated at dusk from the inside with candles, so that the entire beach shines in a sea of lights.