Went on another castle trip yesterday, and back to Kent too.

This time our visit was to Dover Castle - oddly enough in Dover. I have to say before I say anything else, that I did not think much of Dover. It seemed very cluttered. Especially with a huge sixties style block of a building dropped in the middle of it. I suppose the clutter is what you get a places like that, what with the port and all but I wouldn't live there.

The castle was nice though. Sitting high on top of a cliff overlooking the town and the coast. Parts of it are almost 2000 years old, stretching back to when the Romans roamed our land. And it has served a purpose from then right through to only 20 years ago in the mid eighties when underground chambers and tunnels where used as a government base where officials would have ruled Kent in the event of a nuclear attack.

Obviously, being in such a front line position (France being a mere 22 miles away), the castle was huge. Considering we arrived at about 1pm, our afternoon was certainly packed. We had a look around most of the grounds, went into the main castle keep, took a walk in the medieval underground passages and took a look at where WW2 weapons were positioned.

When we left at about 5pm, there was still things to do such as visit the WW2 underground command centre and hospital (which we were going to do but decided on the medieval tunnels instead), the battlement walk - a trek around the perimeter of the castle and something called the admiralty lookout. I think another visit will be in order one day to finish these bits.

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Charlie paid a visit yesterday evening too. Kate bought the Monopoly board game a few weeks ago an we have played a couple of games - all of which I won. So of course Charlie had to be challenged to beat me. Which he didn't - Kate did instead. Darn & blast.

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