1066 Country

Hooray! The internet works properly on Dad's laptop!! Now I can reach civilisation from the farthest reaches of the earth :D
We've had a really nice few days holiday here, mainly looking at the history, etc.We're camping about 10 miles from Battle, which is where the Battle of Hastings took place. Imaginative name, isn't it?!
Anyway, we went and looked round the site which was fun, and you get these audio phone sets which take you round. You can choose your perspective - either Harold Godwinnson's wife (who you wouldn't think knew much really, and who didn't seem to on the tape either!), or a Saxon peasant knight (who died in the battle...hmm...talking from heaven?), or a Norman knight. Who was the only one with anything decent to say, even if his French accent sounded more Irish than anything else!
Yesterday we went to Dover Castle, which I found very interesting. There's an audio visual 'Castle Under Siege' thing about Henry II, a 'Preparation for the King' thing about Henry VIII and some Secret Wartime Tunnels, used in WWII, where they masterminded the whole Dunkirk rescue and had the biggest switchboard thing in the country. So that was fun! Only I couldn't help noticing that our tour guide for the tunnels looked extremely bored, and when there was a recording playing he was reciting it word for word - it was quite amusing!
We also found an amusement arcade which Benj decided he loved and kept on dragging us back to again and again. It has 2p machines which have those little ornaments but on this one they do actually fall off with the 2ps, so it was good. Oh, and Dad managed to get a whole zoo out of the boxes things (Thomases - remember the one in Looe? It was like that!). It was fun, but now we have a million soft toys just hanging around the van!
Anyway I should probably go have breakfast because we're moving on the Ashburnham (sp?) today, for 28:18. Dad has a team meeting today so we're going a day early - that's good though, because we can choose a nice pitch!
And I'll see people again on Saturday! Hooray!