Enjoying England

Hello everyone,

Our campervan on the Chunnel Train

Did you get your report cards yet?  I hope you were all doing great work for your teachers!   So after we were done skiing we decided to head back to England.  We drove through Germany and Belgium and then got to the French Port of Calais.  There we decided to take the Chunnel back to England.  The Chunnel is a train that goes through a tunnel under the English Channel.  It only takes 35 minutes and the train cars can take all sorts of cars.  We ate our lunch while we sat in our campervan and zipped along under the ground, under the water.  Cool.

Since then we have been travelling around through the south of England.  We went to Dover castle, to a car museum and then to these really cool Moors.  The Moors are a big, hilly area of land with hardly any trees.  There are lots of peat bogs that you have to be careful not to step in because they're similar to quicksand and you could sink in!  There are wild ponies living on the Moor--they are really cute.  The Moor we went to was called Dartmoor and it is where the movie "War Horse" was filmed.  It is also the setting for the Sherlock Holmes story "The Hound of the Baskervilles."

Now I'm in a pretty area with rolling hills called the Cotswolds.  We are going to be walking on some ancient paths from village to village.  At least I hope we will--we have been getting a LOT of rain around here.  I'm glad to be staying in a house now instead of our camper.

Dover Castle

Take care,
From,
Mrs McMillan

Anne and Kate at the remains of a Bronze Age Hut

Dartmoor--the barren lands of the Moors