Summer School, Day 4

Friday's summer school bounty is going to enable the three of us (Emily, Mark, and me) to follow in the footsteps of William the Conqueror in 1066.  We will use it to leave Rye, East Sussex...

...and head to Hastings, also in Sussex (it's not very far),

...and thence to Battle, East Sussex...

...where we will stand at the spot where King Harold supposedly met his doom with a Norman arrow to his eye.

Friday will cover the hotel and gas and museum entrance fees.  What will Monday's dollars be used for?  Check back and see!

Summer School, Day 3

Today's summer school moolah will pick up the tab for our gas from Rye, Sussex...

...to Dover, Kent...

...the ferry fare to CALAIS, France...

...the gas from Calais to Dunkirk...

...then to the border of France and Belgium...

...then to the border of Belgium and the Netherlands...

...and perhaps back to England.  It's not as far as it seems to we who live in western North America, where distances are vast.

Day four will have to wait for Sunday, as it's Faire weekend and I will be away, immersed in sixteenth century Scotland.

Summer School, Day 2

Today my summer school wages will be taking care of the gas from Hull, Yorkshire...

...to Rye, Sussex, 

...and back.  It does not, alas, include the cost of a stay at the Mermaid Inn in Rye, which is beyond my means on this trip.  There aren't enough summer school days to cover that even though it has come highly recommended by my main Rye informant, Stoaty Weasel.  Well, her folks stayed there at least...I guess that's some sort of recommendation. :)