Monday, October 26, 2009

Hastings and Beachy Head

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Sunday we drove the short distance to Battle, where the Battle of Hastings occurred. The pope directed William (the Conqueror) to build an a...
Sunday, October 25, 2009

Bodiam Castle, 2009

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We drove on, in brightening weather, to Bodiam Castle, still in Kent. If you were to call central casting and order up an archetypical med...

Knole Castle

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Knole Castle; sorry, no interior pix, but there's probably a website... Knole Castle was built originally as a palac...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Shoreham: Sex and Violence on the Allotments

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The Brits are just endlessly interesting. After Chartwell, we parked over-night at a public carpark in the hamlet of Shoreham, in Kent. Ther...

Chartwell

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We had planned on visiting Windsor, but a state visit (or rehearsal for a state visit; we're not sure) changed our plans, and, on anothe...

Snowshill and the Cotwolds

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Next (this is all Thursday, I think), we drove into the Cotwolds and to Snowshill Manor. Snowshill is something a bit different. Actually, i...

Rollright Stones

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The circle, or "army," about 100 feet in diameter, limestone, heavily worn The King The Knights ...

Eagle and Child

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The Eagle and Child; or, the Bird and Baby, as Lewis called it. The Rabbit Room, where they gathered Us, there...

Oxford, 2009

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With rain forecast, we decided to forego/postpone the Cotswolds, and drove on to Oxford, camping, as it were in Kidlington, and taking the b...

Blenheim, 2009

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France and England were at war constantly, more or less, from the 14th century to nearly the 20th. The War of Spanish Succession was the  ea...