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Saturday, July 29, 2006
ARRIVING IN LONDON - June 28
Our arrival in London was fraught with our typical perils of Pauline, including learning that the company we rented our car from in the States didn’t exist in England, and ending up being charged double what we’d agreed when we reserved on the Web. But, we DID get to our friend’s house in Hackney…...
Thursday, July 27, 2006
IGHTHAM MOTE - July 14
In which we visit the “ancestral seat”, celebrate a birthday, and support the National Trust with more than membership. A branch of Gail’s family owned this moated manor house for almost three hundred years…..
Thursday, July 13, 2006
ARTS and CRAFTS, LITERARY COTTAGE, and YES, *ANOTHER* CASTLE! - July 12
I haven’t taken time to write much but a summary, but here is a photo…
This is Standen House, looking at the entrance with a medieval farmer’s cottage on the right that Webb incorporated rather than demolish. It’s SO peaceful and filled with joy. We loved it. The gardener had put out new potatoes and zucchini for anyone to take, leaving a donation. We had them for supper.
UPDATED with Photos
LORD HAW-HAW’S PLACE, THE LAST ENGLISH KING, AND PEVENSEY CASTLE - July 11
We saw the site where the English lost their island to the French (who were really assimilated Vikings!), and learned a lot of about the complicated story of just how that got set up and then climaxed in the Battle of Hastings (1066). Then we went to one of the early fortifications of the Roman invasion, later refortified and reused…..Check it out:
This is the West Gate of the Roman fort—HUGE walls with towers all around, and standing here almost 2,000 years. The castle inside was made much later, of course….begun by William on his arrival from France.
UPDATED with photos
THREE ENGLISH HERITAGE CASTLES and SECRET WWII TUNNELS - July 10
From Margate we headed south through holiday towns of the 18th and 19th centuries—time has dealt differently with each of them. An Tudor fort restored pretty much to its original state, another modified into a gentleman’s country house, and finally Dover Castle, first fortified (so far as is known) by the Romans and used militarily all the way through the Cold War!
Here is the Roman lighthouse - all the way up to where you see the decreasing diameter. Above that is a later section, though the original Roman structure was twice this height! At left is the Saxon church (about 600 a.d.) which was rebuilt, abandoned, used as a coal store, and then restored
Update: Photos have been added
Sunday, July 09, 2006
FOLLOWING CHAUCER - July 9, 2006
Today we left Medway, toured Canterbury - Cathedral and Abbey (was the Augustine who founded these places really THE Augustine - the one of the Confessions?), and then came on in to Margate. Yes, fish and chips were on the supper menu!
Soon these trip logs will be illustrated by selected photographs I’ve been taking. So, even if you’ve already read earlier ones, as soon as you see photos anywhere, check out the older entries - look for the “Update - photos” and you’ll know.
UPDATED with photos…..
THE LONG DRIVE SOUTH - July 8, 2006
Leaving Anglia for England’s southeast….we visited the site of very early evidence of Christianity in the UK, saw flowers everywhere, a magnificent cathedral, a couple more castles, and finally a “dry” ski slope!
SORRY—no photos here…I forgot to “shrink” them in the camera before downloading to the computer (and deleting from the camera), so I can’t upload because the files are too big.
(Yes, I know there is probably a way to do it in the computer, but I’m ‘way too ignorant at this point to even attempt it. Later…...
Reading
- BlogsForDummies :)
Web resources
- Arts & Letters Daily
- Ravi Zacharias
- Southern Adventist University
- The SAU Biology Deptartment - where I work with a bunch of very neat people.
- Venezuelan news—FROM Venezuela