Dover Castle-Day 5

After the wildness of Monday it was nice to take a drive to the country side on Tuesday. We rented a car and Mike bravely drove on the opposite side of the car on the opposite side of the road out to Dover. I loved the drive and it was fun to see the all of the fun little out of the way places we passed. This field has a cross in it if you can see it.

I just thought it would be fun to drive all over England...maybe on another trip right?

When we pulled into Dover I saw this funny little house.

The castle was beautiful.

I LOVED being by the ocean. We were at the part of the English Channel that is the narrowest and we could actually see France. I think I would have been worried to live here when England and France were constantly at war.

There was WWII memorabilia everywhere here.

I would have loved to stay a day or two in Dover.

Right on the edge of the cliff are all of these war rooms.

I LOVED those white cliffs.

I LOVE this guy too.

So much for being a secret...actually these were really neat and they showed how they got a ton of soldiers out when they thought Dover was going to fall during WWII. Once again you couldn't take pictures...why please tell me is this whole country photographically challenged!??

Most of my pictures from this day were taken because what I was looking at was beautiful to me. I was having a ball taking pictures of all of these magnificent pieces of architecture.

Even the shapes of the doors were beautiful.

A lot of this 1000 year old castle is a ruin, but I liked it all that much more.

This is just how I pictured England in all of the books I have read. I loved the soft breeze blowing the salty air all around us. This was definitely one of my favorite days.

I loved all of the trees and bushes.

This castle towers over everything here. No wonder it was a good military base.

I love all of the little details of these places.

Look how thick these outer walls are.

This place is so old that plants are growing out of the walls.

This castle didn't strike me as particularly comfortable. Things weren't made as nicely. A lot of it looked like it was carved out of rock rather than made from stone.

The windows were made to keep in light at the same time they were very small so they would protect the monarch living here.

This is on the roof of the castle. There were four little towers like this in each corner that you could climb up.

The view from one of the castles.

This was one of my favorite parts of the castle. It is the church and part of a Roman Lighthouse that once stood here. The lighthouse used to be double that height.

These hallways in the castle just seemed so cold and stark.

This guy was playing one of the kings of old and telling stories about court life.

The ceiling was made of tiny tiles.

I thought this would have been a nursery, but they said that it was a place for travelers to stay.

What a fun wardrobe.

The kitchen (how often do you think they got food poisoning with the meat just hanging there like that-gross)

The church was so cute and people still worship there today.

I loved this lighthouse next to the church, called a Roman Lighthouse.

The wildflowers were so pretty and relaxing. I really could have stayed here a good long time.

From inside the lighthouse.

When we were driving around the town we stopped to do a little shopping. We saw these cute little old men lawn bowling. The people are part of what fascinated me so much about England. I loved to hear them talk. I wish we could have been interacting with the people a little more, but I don't know how we would have done that. We talked to people in lines for things whenever we could.

This was a little church was saw in the town of Dover.

This house was right outside the church and reminded me of the house on "Pride and Prejudice".

The castle view from the town.

Later that night after we got back to London we met the Snailhams for dinner. They are members of the church over here that Mike and Kate knew. That was one of my favorite nights because we got to be around some wonderful English people.

As we were waiting to be met I saw this cute little cottage. It actually had a sign on the side of it that said "The Cottage." I think most of the houses we saw had history in them. It would be fun to explore.

The Snailham family was so gracious and lovely. We instantly loved them.