It was day-trip time again, and our destination was the White Cliffs of Dover and Dover Castle. Here the castle looks appropriately gloomy and threatening as grey clouds part briefly.
Not sure what these were, but they looked interesting.
The entrance to the tunnels from where the evacuation of Dunkirk in WWII was planned. The tunnels were fascinating, and the presentation inside on their history was very well done.
It's just a breakwater and the English Channel, but it looked so dramatic and...dismal. But in a cool way.
Some of the famous White Cliffs, with modern downtown Dover in the background.
Then back to Dover Castle. We only had an hour there, but wished we'd had all day. So much to see and do, and a rather lovely gift shop to boot. (Is it wrong to judge a tourist attraction's importance almost exclusively on the quality of its gift shop? We've found it to be a fairly accurate barometer.)
C and E practice their throne-sitting in the castle's medieval throne room.
From the ramparts of Dover Castle. The circular tower in the middle of the photo is actually the ruins of a Roman lighthouse. And though you may not be able to see it well in this photo (certainly not in this size), between the ocean and the sky is a thin dark line that is the French coast.
Throughout the Castle (here, in the Armory) there were 3D hologram projections that brought to life the activities and lifestyles of a medieval castle. Here two armory workers talk in fake medieval English about the previous day's jousting. ("Methinks I lost two crowns on a wager with Sir Ethelred. His jousting doth stink.)
From the water's edge, looking up towards some of the WWII tunnels.
Not a great photo (from a moving bus, through the front window) but there are some more White Cliffs.
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