We have come to stop a couple nights with two of the English "family" at their house in the Kent countryside at Ickham. It is a small village five miles east of Canterbury, with a few roads, two pubs, a church, and many old and well preserved houses. It is surrounded by farmland. At the time … Continue reading Ickham – An English Country Village
Abroad
Back in 2013 this blog started its life as 55 Days with Gwen – the story of two months travelling the Balkans with our good friends Jay and Waddy.
Since then, it has grown to include much more.
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Dover Castle: Secret Wartime Tunnels
The tourist brochure says that "Henry II built the present castle of Dover in the 1180s, and that over the next 800 years its buildings and defences were adapted to meet the changing demands of weapons and warfare". Continuing on from yesterday's visit to the Hurricane and Spitfire museum, we have come to Dover Castle … Continue reading Dover Castle: Secret Wartime Tunnels
Hurricane and Spitfire Museum, Manston, Kent, England
We are in England now, in the Thanet region of Kent in the south-east, cradled in the care of my English "family". We can slow down, spread out, laze around and chat and eat; and even try to catch up on the blog (that didn't work). Nevertheless, we are not entirely over sightseeing, and … Continue reading Hurricane and Spitfire Museum, Manston, Kent, England
GWEN WILSON, Author, aka The Reluctant Retiree 