Day 3 : UK 2013

Yesterday we went to Dover Castle.  It's an impressive castle on the top of a hill.  You can see France from the castle tower.  Guess its about 35 miles to get over there, this is the general area where the trains use the Chunnel to go over to France.


Anyway they had a WWII event while we were there.  They had German and British soldiers walking around.  They had camps setup around the castle to show what you would typically see in a camp during world war II.  They had a spit fire plane and some other cool
cars.  There was a general store that you could see what was generally available.  Chocolate was very expensive.  Its funny but my aunt mentioned she saw her first banana after the war, she was so small she never experience life before the war so the rations seemed like the norm.  We also got to see a reenactment of an ambush.  The narrator gave a brief history of the main events for Britain during WWII, my history is very rusty I didn't remember they took over a lot of east and

south east countries before moving into France. They had a scouting party that had a jeep break down.  As they were working to fix the jeep the germans spotted the english and moved in.  They had rifles and a gatling gun going off in an exciting firefight.  Then the germans took over the british and captured their jeep, but one british soldier got away and next thing you know it a bunch of british soldiers come back and capture them all.  Very entertaining and informative.

So now back to the castle,  it was well position to see anything come from anywhere.  We were able to go up in the main castle to the top and have a great view.  On the way up they had the standard loo's (toilet), someone said that the name loo came about because they use to mark it with a 100.  But looking it up online that fun story isn't a real theory, most people think its just a play on words either french or english.  Anyway also on the way up the castle there was bedrooms and a kitchen showing what the place would look like back then.  The oddest thing i found is they beds were short and seemed small but the chairs seemed large.  Assuming the bed at least fit them then the chairs must have been designed like a throne, what was odd is they were so big i would image their feet never touched the ground.