Lovely day for a drive, dropped the top while caught in traffic and made Wookiee faces at the passerby cars.
Arrived at Bodiam Castle where we met Claire who brought Ben & Tom, the Godsons
Wandered up toward the castle, taking lots of pictures and chatting
When we tried to gather for a photo a guy walking by offered to take a shot for us and I laughed so hard at the results that his son took the good ones.
yes that’s 121 photos of his finger 
I can’t stress how perfect the day was. It was not too busy, perfect temp and fab company.
As we came around I spotted archery and had to try. The young air cadet teaching me was sweet and gave me 10 arrows for 6 price as he said I listened well, was a pleasure to teach and I had a straight and true shot.
My short arms and chubby self were not to my advantage but I got three on target and skewered a leaf! Also didn’t realize archery on a Knight’s Castle grounds was on my bucket list but, Check!
Next we had Ice cream and then went on an hour long walking tour with a man who knows his stuff, has a droll sense of humour and a passion for what he does
when they dredged the moat in the ’70 they found a drawbridge laying on bottom. It would have been connected to the small island at a dogleg entry to make marauding more difficult. The moat is 8 feet deep and was hand dug
The tour gave us so many roots of sayings such as the bottom of baked bread was often ashy so they carved off the bottom and gave to poor Leaving the upper crust for the Gentry 
Once the tour was over we split up and covered every corner from the cellar right up to the top
Next stop the pillbox
and finally the café before we split off for Cranbrook
we made it just past here when it was realized we had Claire’s keys so back we went
And then, here we were in beautiful Cranbrook , Kent. I wore my T-shirt with Cranbrook, BC on the back and had many interesting conversations. The people at the museum took my picture and showed me what they had already.
Thé muséum is incredible. What a job they have done.
The people were so welcoming and gave us advice to check out the Windmill as well
And so we did, ever so grateful we listened
They are supposed to be for 10 and under but….
We wandered in town and found the store called Pages as Cranbrook BC has a used bookstore of that name, stopped for a bevie at The George Hôtel and wandered through the churchyard back to the car
On the way I saw this and it’s a blight on the countryside
Dear Nigel went out of our way to get me to a specific store to pick up a few things to take home and then we grabbed takeaway fish and chips. I also picked up a Lucy Llama cake to celebrate these wonderful friends I met in Peru
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