Dover Castle
As we parked the camper van at Dover Castle I jumped out with excitement.  First we went to some underground tunnels that had been used in the 2nd World War, the first one we went to was Operation Dynamo where they organized the evacuation of Dunkirk Beach where lots of soldiers were trapped.  The second tunnel was a hospital where the soldiers went if they got sick or hurt.  After that we went to the castle that King Henry II built

But 1st you had to go through a defensive wall, then another one, then one more then you got to the castle, wow the bad guys would have had a very tricky job.

The castle looked amazing and huge and it looked spectacular in side.

After that we went to the Roman lighthouse it looked very old, then we went to the Saxon church it was the shape of a cross.  It was very cool inside.  

Lastly we walked around the battlement wall back to the camper van.  Wow that was an impressive day.    By Amy

The New Forest
 As we stopped in the car park in the New Forest we hopped out and saw a whole load of wild New Ponies, they looked so lovely.  I walked slowly up to one and it seemed to like me so I patted it.

 Lots of the ponies were lying down as they were going to have a foal soon.  The New Forest went on for miles on end, we walked through a bit of it and then we turned back to the car and had a picnic and then we went to a pub and I had a delicious hot chocolate and the cup was half full of marshmallows yummy!

 By Amy

Fishbourne Roman Villa
We all had a fan-diddley-tastic time at the Roman Palace today, it was amazing.  First of all we entered the 1st block and there was a long table with ink wells and bamboo sticks (which I was soon to realize was for writing with) and lastly small pieces of brown paper.  We sat down and the lady gave us each a piece of brown paper a bamboo stick and a small dark ink well, oh and I can’t forget the small white piece of paper with roman letters on it, lucky thing that we got those or I would have completely mucked up when it came to do the writing.

  After that we headed to the makeup room and urg the make up the Romans used to wear was disgusting. No I’m serious this is only some of the gruesome stuff they wore. Squashed flies as eye shadow uck, and lead to make them look pale, but the thing is, they didn’t realize that lead was poisonous.  

The next place wasn’t as disgusting, in fact is was not disgusting at all, only that your hands got a little bit mucky but that doesn’t matter because we were making pots, in the end mine ended up looking a little bit like a bee hive.  We were told to leave them there until we were ready to go so they would have a bit of time to dry, even so mine was still really squishy. Laura

The girls also got to try lots of other Roman activities like going to school and being a Roman scholar and trying their hand at weaving.

There were even artefacts dug up from the site of the villa, and some pretty amazing mosaic floors that had been painstakingly uncovered and can be viewed from a platform above them.  All in all really cool day out.

Stonehenge

At Stonehenge we had a super duper time. When we got there we were all  handed a hand sized audio device with lots of what I thought at first very confusing small buttons, but I worked it out in the end.  Then suddenly Stonehenge was in sight and I stopped for a minute to look admiringly at the dark shaped rocks with the sun setting in the back ground, wow.  But I couldn’t stand there looking at Stonehenge for long because suddenly my device started nattering and it is right because how could the Neolithic people get all those monstrously heavy rocks up on top of each other?  Well it is said that the Neolithic people used long planks of wood as ramps, bone to dig with, and of course pure muscle.  But that doesn’t tell you what it was used for does it?  So it is said that because Stonehenge has twelve different doorways people think that it was used as a calendar for the different months of the year (very smart).  Laura

Stratford
‘Well this is William Shakespeare’s house’ Dad shouted as a load of zooming cars passed us and it is also the house he was born in.

 So we had seen the house where William had been born and now we were going to see the house he died in and along the way we saw the school he went too.  Soon we were there at the house where William died it was quite an old, pretty looking house,

 So we set of,  on our way we saw the American Fountain it was a little tower clock that the Americans had given to England because they loved William Shakespeare’s stories so much and because it was Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee.
 Then we saw his daughters house, after that we went to the church where he was buried.  Amy

The River Avon all iced over!

 Even the bank and lamp posts were pretty cool.

We parked for the night at Silbury Hill the largest prehistoric mound in Europe, it is around 37m high and about 30m across the top and about 1/2km around its base.  Nobody can be sure why it was built but it seems to have been started around 2400bc, and again nobody can be sure when it got to its present hight but it seems that it took anywhere between a 100 years and 400 years.  The build started with just a very small mound of about 2m high made from gravel and clay and topped with soil and turf, and the hill seems to have grown from there over the years through a number of building stages to its present hight.