Friday Morning

I climbed up into the window in the castle ruins!
Lunch time at Rye.

This morning we leave Chris and Stella. They go back to work and we go to Gosport.

Yesterday we went to Rye, Hastings and Battle. Katie was so excited to go to Battle. I was wondering how she even knew about Battle as I had never heard of it. Well she told me Mr J. has been teaching us about the William the Conqueror and the Battle against the Normans and the Saxons (known as the Battle of Hastings) had a Battle in Battle!!! She was so excited. We were trying to decide whether or not to go and have a look at the ruins of the Abbey in Battle. We decided we should – for Katie’s sake. She was now really excited and said that Mr J. will be so proud of her. She spouted off all the information she knew (which I must admit was quite a bit). She was happy that she knew how it all ended now as when she left school Mr J. hadn’t finished reading the book! We walked around the battlefield but we couldn’t look in the main building as it is now a very flash school. Can you imagine going to school where William the Conqueror had fought a battle!!! Wow! Somehow we missed taking a photo of Katie at the ruins - what a shame!!!

We had scones for lunch in Rye. We were in this very quaint little cafe that seemed to specialise in cupcakes! Of course Katie had to have a cupcake for her lunch.

Hastings was not like our Hastings. It was right by the sea. It is a fishing city and didn’t smell very nice.

After our walk around Battle we went back to Rye and bought fish and chips. We had to have it at least once while we were in England.

We left there and picked up Ben and his girlfriend Emma. It was lovely to see them and spend some time with them. Ben talks with a real English accent now.

Well I must sign off again as we need to pack up again and head out.

Catch you all later

Gwen

Ps – Katie is still all stuffed up, but at least she is starting to get some sleep with the drugs kind of working.