Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Dover and Castle

November 20 we drove on to Folkstone and the Vicarious
bookstore, which maintains a collection of European and
UK camping guides. After stocking up there, we drove on,
in a downpour, to Dover, and stopped at the town center
carpark, where overnighting is allowed. We shopped all the
charity stores, donating as well as purchasing, then took in
the castle the next day. Above, the giant TV screen in city
square, Dover
Dover castle by night
















Main castle by day; it's a huge, curtained,
11th-12th century structure





Keep
Throne room; English Heritage just finished a major
restoration in August, furnishing the keep with a variety of
objects thought to be typical of what it was like in the 12th
century; "history in technicolor" they call it


Banquet hall; more history in technicolor





Just down from the keep, the 1st century Roman lighthouse
and the 10th century Saxon church
We also visited the Dover Wartime Tunnels (of which there
are nearly 4 miles' worth); the tunnels date from the
Napoleonic Wars, but were expanded and used importantly
in WWII, especially in directing the Dunkirk evacuation;
similar in approach, exhibit-wise, to the Cabinet War
Rooms; no pix allowed

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