Another nice day and we headed off in the direction of Rye. Rye is an old walled town which has been largely maintained at it was in Medieval times. Some years ago now a Heritage Order was placed on the entire town and so nothing can now be changed from its current state. About 40 years ago a husband and wife team set about on a Labour of love and made a model of the town of Rye. They used the earliest remaining public records to create the model as accurately as...

Last night was cooler so we all slept well and as we got ready to leave a lovely English couple about our age who had been at reception with us when we checked in and had spoken to us whenever they saw us after that came up to me for a chat and then asked "do you know David from New Zealand?" "Yes" I said "he's my brother" thinking he couldn't possibly be serious. "Really" he said "I met him at Monte Carlo several years ago". After establishing that there were se...