GWEN WILSON, Author, aka The Reluctant Retiree

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Ickham – An English Country Village

26 August, 20131 April, 2025 / Garrulous Gwendoline / Leave a comment

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 … Continue reading Ickham – An English Country Village

Dover Castle: Secret Wartime Tunnels

25 August, 20131 April, 2025 / Garrulous Gwendoline / 2 Comments

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 … Continue reading Dover Castle: Secret Wartime Tunnels

Hurricane and Spitfire Museum, Manston, Kent, England

24 August, 20131 April, 2025 / Garrulous Gwendoline / 5 Comments

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 … Continue reading Hurricane and Spitfire Museum, Manston, Kent, England

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