Stayed at Trevor’s today relaxing & watched Merlin the Magician perform his show. Out to dinner at a good old English Pub then a drive around the local area sightseeing afterwards.
Friday 3rd July
Left Trevor & Christine and headed for our next stop at a camp site near Salisbury. It is always good to catch up with friends across the sea’s and renew old acquaintances. Again we arrived after a few wrong turns, not hard to do over here as there are that many roads, roundabouts and turn offs you can take. You can be sailing along at a good pace on a four lane road then the next thing you know you are at a snail pace in a line of traffic due to a round about ahead, this happened to use a few times today.
Saturday 4th July
First up looked at Stonehenge, you all know about it. But there was a massive traffic jam but the photo doesn't do it justice. 45 minutes to get 3 miles.
Then it was time to look at Old Sarum a derelict fortress & castle at the junctions of the 5 Roman roads of England.
Then back to camp at Salisbury.
Sunday 5th July
Drove to Arundel and looked at Arundel Castle. Privately owned by the 18th Duke of Norfolk, Edward now is the premier Duke of GB and second only to the Queen and responsible for organising of Royal & State funerals & Coronations. By the way we saw him and his wife drive out in a very nice looking Roll Royce.
Monday 6th
Drove 40 miles for John to look at Newhaven Fort, first built in 1871 in East Sussex, while Fiona sat in the van and read her book. It has a long military history up until the 1962 when it was sold to the council.
Two momentous events of the war for Newhaven were the Dieppe Raid in August 1941 and the D-Day landings in June 1944. For more info see www.newhavenfort.org.uk
Tuesday 7th
Drove to Windsor & looked at Windsor Castle, the biggest and oldest castle still occupied by the Royal Monarchs of Great Britain since it started being built in 1066 by William the Conqueror. Queen Elizabeth 11 lives nearly every weekend. It is a very impressive castle with a bloody lot of history, paintings by the best artists you can name, Van Dyck, Rubens and so it goes on. Has to be seen to believe!!!
Drove to Caterham south of London on the M25 to stay the night about 40 miles away from where we have to return the camper tomorrow. This will give us time to be able to pack up our goods as it is our last day in England.
Wednesday 8th
Dropped van off, then got train across London to Heathrow airport arriving at 1500hrs.
Flew out at 2130 headed for home.
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