Dover Harbor

Sailboats and lighthouse in Dover harbor.

After touring the Canterbury Cathedral and the ruins of the Augustinian Abbey, we drove on to Dover in clear sunshine through green fields. We got there about 4PM and immediately engaged a room in a bed-and-breakfast just across the street from the ferry. It was about the last room on the whole street, so they go early.

We walked up a pathway up some of the limestone cliffs overlooking the harbor. We got a good view of the car ferry loading area which we would traverse tomorrow. We watched the ferrys and the other shipping in and out of the area. May 27, 1967

Townsend Car Ferry Leaving Dover

We walked up a pathway up some of the limestone cliffs overlooking the harbor. We got a good view of the car ferry loading area which we would traverse tomorrow. We watched the ferrys and the other shipping in and out of the area. May 27, 1967

Dover Castle

We walked up a pathway up some of the limestone cliffs overlooking the harbor. We continued up a path, supposedly on the way to Dover Castle, but found our path blocked by a stone wall about 40 feet high. We found a tunnel through it, through some concrete catacombs, only to be faced by a second such wall. We realized that this was probably part of the defenses of Dover during the war. They were heavy concrete with gun holes and apparent gun emplacements. We decided that we two were unlikely to penetrate the defenses designed to keep out Hitler, so we retraced our steps. Although grown over by weeds and disused for years, the bunkers and barricades were still rather formidable - I was surprised by their extent.

We finally made our way up to view Dover Castle, but it seemed an anti-climax to an already full day so we made our weary way back down to our room at the bed n' breakfast. May 27, 1967