Weald - 1st July

Left our crowded field and headed ten minutes up the road to the Weald open air museum.
No more castles!

The museum covers 40 acres with over 50 historic buildings.
It was launched in 1967 and it's aim is to preserve buildings of historical significance in the UK. There are also a couple of recreated buildings from earlier times. The oldest building on the site is 950 years old.
Along with this they have also recreated the gardens and outbuildings that would have been associated with the houses.
There is very little steel used in any of the buildings, Most of their joints are mortise and tenon with dowels, or 'pegs' as they refer to them here.
Even the clay roof tiles have timber pegs to attach them to the roofs.
Also there is  also a 'gridshell' building here, one of only two in the UK. it is a light weight timber frame structure that gets it's support by curving in two directions. the timbers are only 50 x 35 and most of them are in lengths of 36 metres, there are some joints along the way.
Back to the heritage buildings. They have filled the them with furniture to match the time, also there are some displays such as the plumbers workshop. 
We spent the entire day wandering around the place.

We intend going to Canterbury Cathedral tomorrow so we headed that way, the closest caravan park we could find was in Dover, We are now sleeping with the campervan windows open, we need a park with a shower.

We arrived in Dover and the first thing we noticed was the big castle on the hill.
Also the docks from where we had left some weeks earlier for Europe on our bus trip.

We think we may have a wander on the cliffs tomorrow before going to the Cathedral.

But no more castles, we've done enough.
Dover has the largest castle in England, just saying...