In June, after I'd been traveling for so long, we wanted to get away from the city for a bit. Trying to take advantage of some of the history in the area, we went down near Hastings, where William the Conqueror invaded in 1066. The actual site of the battle now has a village on site, called Battle. This is all in the rolling hills of Kent, and was about an hour train ride from home.
The walk that was planned to be 5.3 miles that ended to be 8 + miles. But what a great walk. It started at the Battle abbey. James the history buff did not get chance to see the battle fields, I was a weenie and wanted to start the walk. James was very disappointed. We hope to get back with out the boys to see everything.
The 1066 walk went through several nature reserves and by a 1,000 year old yew tree and through several farm grain fields. Darkstar even found a country pub. We got off track when we got to the marsh area in the walk. The sting weeds were as high as our necks well some of our necks (mine) the boys just ran thru them. The boys were great even when we finally got out of the marsh and found out that we were 3 miles off track and had to walk back thru town to the train station. Again the beach was not sandy but had large stones pebbles . We found a pub in Bexhill to rest before the train trip home again.
Sunday Update: Cassidy sent us an email that she gets a log in prompt when we publish pictures, but not when we put in the slideshow mode. The main point of putting a link in to the picture album is that you get much larger pix than the slideshow mode, and in some of these landscape shots, we thought you might want to see that.
So, you'll find the slide show below, and here's a link in case you want to see the larger pictures. If anyone has problems with seeing the pictures or anythi8ng else on the blog, please let us know. I'm constantly trying new things with the application and I can't tell very well if they work or not.
And the map location where they were taken. It's also pretty cool to look at these things in Google Earth
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