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