Day 2, part 1 (Deal and Dover)

We started the day off with a "Full English Breakfast".

This was fruit, then 2 sausages (not spicy), 2 pieces of fried ham (called bacon), sauted mushrooms, over-easy egg, beans (like pork-n-beans), stewed tomato and toast. Yum!



A British "Cell" Phone!

We drove east from Chislet to Deal on the coast

Deal Castle



Deal Castle was one of a chain of armored forts...



built by Henry VIII about 1540 to protect the southeastern coast of England.

After a quick look around, we drove to the most southeasterly point of England- Dover. This is the narrowest point of the English Channel between England and France.



Can you see France just on the horizon? It's there!
(A view from the Great Tower at Dover Castle)



Dover Castle is really a huge walled fortress complex. Because of its strategic position, it has been in use since at least the 1st Century AD.



In the foreground, the remains of a lighthouse built by the Romans about 40 A.D. In the background, the walls of the medieval castle and keep.

Palace Gate, the entrance to the "Castle" Inner Bailey built by Henry II about 1180.



The Keep Palace- decorated as it may have appeared in the 12th Century.



Secret tunnels in the white cliffs beneath Dover Castle were used by the military during WWII.



Here is a view of the White Chalk Cliffs overshadowing the little town of Dover.