DAY-20: The White Cliffs Of Dover
Day – 20: Monday, September 11, 2017
Starting Location: Canterbury, England, UK
Interim Location: Dover, England, UK
Interim Location: Dover, England, UK
Ending Location: Canterbury, England, UK
We met for breakfast around 9 AM; three of us dined from the buffet but Sheila ordered an omelet. They must have had to find a chicken to lay the eggs, we thought the omelet would never show up. Once it did I'd guess it must have been made with six eggs plus the "kitchen sink" in terms of meats, veggies, cheeses, etc.
Today our plan was to go to Dover, home of the famous "white cliffs". A secondary objective was to search out old airfields in the area from which U.S. airman might have flown in WWII.
We began on the road to Manston, UK where the RAF and historic groups have the Spitfire Memorial and the RAF Manston Museum. We visited both locations and learned a bit about the RAF and its tireless defense of Great Britain not only against air raids but against the V-1 buzz bombs used by Germany.
Though there were airfields in the area, most were defensive locations with RAF fighter/interceptor squadrons tasked with defending the homeland.
From Manston we headed for Dover but en-route Diane & Greg mentioned that nearby Sandwich was the location of a Pfizer production location that Matt Maxwell regularly visited. Well we found the Pfizer location and took a couple of pics as evidence for Diane & Greg.
We continued into Dover and first entered the downtown area for a view of the ferry and cruise ship terminals and dockage.
The transportation of goods and people from Dover to France is intense and extremely busy.
Our next stop was the Dover Castle, another very old historic location. In addition to walking the grounds we toured the castle and chapel. The castle is decked out in period furnishings and is meant to offer an insight into life during the days of yesteryear.
Adjacent to the chapel was an old Roman lighthouse dating from the fist century AD. Clearly this would be the oldest lighthouse I've visited.
From the castle we entered the White Cliffs historic area, a park of sorts. From the park one can get a good view of the fabled cliffs by taking any of several cliff walks.
Having completed our touring for the day we returned to the hotel but soon departed for dinner at a Maxwell recommend restaurant in Canterbury, The Ancient Raj. The meal was excellent, way too much food ordered for the four of us but everything was great. While there we sat between two chatty tables, locals out for in one case a date-night and at the other a birthday celebration.
We had been advised by the hotel that onsite parking was limited but being an innovative lot we quickly found a solution. That would be Greg holding the road work barricade sign that somehow appeared in our parking space when we had been out.
Back at the hotel Sheila and I finished with a beer and Kir before turning in for the night.
Special Note: We must have received the NAVY Room at the hotel, the blue & gold is obvious!
We met for breakfast around 9 AM; three of us dined from the buffet but Sheila ordered an omelet. They must have had to find a chicken to lay the eggs, we thought the omelet would never show up. Once it did I'd guess it must have been made with six eggs plus the "kitchen sink" in terms of meats, veggies, cheeses, etc.
Today our plan was to go to Dover, home of the famous "white cliffs". A secondary objective was to search out old airfields in the area from which U.S. airman might have flown in WWII.
We began on the road to Manston, UK where the RAF and historic groups have the Spitfire Memorial and the RAF Manston Museum. We visited both locations and learned a bit about the RAF and its tireless defense of Great Britain not only against air raids but against the V-1 buzz bombs used by Germany.
From Manston we headed for Dover but en-route Diane & Greg mentioned that nearby Sandwich was the location of a Pfizer production location that Matt Maxwell regularly visited. Well we found the Pfizer location and took a couple of pics as evidence for Diane & Greg.
We continued into Dover and first entered the downtown area for a view of the ferry and cruise ship terminals and dockage.
The transportation of goods and people from Dover to France is intense and extremely busy.
Our next stop was the Dover Castle, another very old historic location. In addition to walking the grounds we toured the castle and chapel. The castle is decked out in period furnishings and is meant to offer an insight into life during the days of yesteryear.
From the castle we entered the White Cliffs historic area, a park of sorts. From the park one can get a good view of the fabled cliffs by taking any of several cliff walks.
We had been advised by the hotel that onsite parking was limited but being an innovative lot we quickly found a solution. That would be Greg holding the road work barricade sign that somehow appeared in our parking space when we had been out.
Special Note: We must have received the NAVY Room at the hotel, the blue & gold is obvious!
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