Dover Castle

As Vera Lynn once sang:

There'll be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover
Tomorrow
Just you wait and see

In this case, it wasn't bluebirds, it was me!

After a wonderful cooked breakfast at the Grand Burstin, we headed off up the coast from Folkestone to Dover, which was only about ten minutes. The first …

"The task will be hard. There may be dark days ahead and war can no longer be confined to the battlefield. But we can only do the right as we see the right and reverently commit our cause to God", King George VI prepares Britain for the Second World War in 1939.


By far the most incomprehensible impulse of humankind is the desire to …

We returned to Dover Castle to explore and what a castle it is to walk around! Even if the wind hadn't been blowing a gale and the rain hadn’t been coming in sideways, it still would have been a challenge to see it all! Oh my god it was cold and the wind almost blew us all over a number of times, but it was still fun!



The …

"Oh my goodness, this must be a typical autumn day. Just look and the wind and rain" laments Cecilia. "I'm glad I brought my wooly underwear!"

“Wooly underwear?”

“Just kidding. Can you still get wooly underwear?”

We take the M20 motorway through attractive hilly countryside hardly seen through the …

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A slightly earlier start today (10.30am or so). We drove down to Bodiam Castle. When we were filling up with petrol I found a 10 pound note under our car (about $30!!).

The villages we passed through today, and the little lanes we drown down, were soooo beautiful. The autumn trees are lovely and losing their leaves all the time.
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This morning we slept in (we all needed it), so we didn't leave until 10.30am. We took our washing to Borough Green (three pound 80 for 4 bags of dirty clothes) and dropped Shannon's film into to be developed (five pound and a free film).

We then drove down to Dover to explore the castle more thoroughly. We also had a guided tour of the …

This morning we picked up our hire car and drove to Brighton via Dover Castle, Hastings, Rye and Pevensey.

We had a pub dinner at Brighton. …

Today it was off to Dover Castle, not surprisingly in Dover. We saw the famous white cliffs as we wound ourselves down into the port of Dover before climbing back up again to the castle. This was a massive castle to explore with all its ancient and not so ancient, history. As you can see France quite easily from here it is no wonder it has remained …

... through the mist shrouded of the cliffs. We caught the really funky retro 70's double decker bus back into town and headed to Dover Castle. It was our first castle of the trip and to be honest, was really cool. There were a couple of museums and ...

... I had most of the day in Dover before dark. The city istelf is pretty dull, but it does have a few highlights. One is Dover Castle http://www.castlexplorer.co.uk/england/dover/dover.php, where I spent several hours wandering through. I took a tour of ...

... for a nice breakfast with scones mmm.  Checked out and headed off to the train station where I hopped on the next train to Dover.  After about 25mins we arrived and I made my way to my hostel which was located in the oldest pub in ...

... weather was quite cold & wet. Went thru the Secret War Tunnels...we thought very worthwhile little trip thru wartime history. Dover Castle was beaut! Included lovely old church & very old Roman lighthouse ruin! Great views of the town, the port ...

... , but looked through the other buildings, one of which had a short video on the history of King Henry II and his family and how Dover castle was involved. By the time we saw this and the the other buildings at the north end of the castle grounds, it was ...

... back deck of the bistro after breakfast to catch a glimpse of Dover. Our first glance showed a bright clear day in which the Dover Castle on the hill overlooking the town was clear and bright. A few minutes later, without a sound the castle was obscured ...

... . I walked all the way into and through Dover, investigating the shops and snapping pictures, walked all the way up the hill to the Dover Castle, but turned around short of going through the ruins. Wind was taking all the fun out of it. Stopped in a pub ...

... in many films and music videos over the years.  Atop the cliffs is another one of Dover’s famous sights, the Dover Castle.  Initially the site housed a Roman lighthouse and today that lighthouse still stands.  By the 12th century, a ...

... England the continent. Ship traffic was constant as we waited to depart. It was fun to watch. We had a nice view of Dover Castle and the famous white cliffs. Unfortunately the dismal weather did not give us the best conditions to enjoy or photograph the ...

... the weather was dreary, I didn't perceive Dover as such.    A brisk twenty minute walk uphill brings one to Dover castle.  On this particularly day the National Trust had a big programme going on, complete with marching legions of Roman ...