To Dover!

On our last day in London we visited Bunhill Fields Cemetery in the East End. Quite s few of the MESSER families from the area buried there.
It has been a cemetery for 1,000  YEARS with 123,000 buried there!!!! It closed in 1854. There are black wire fences around each half & people walk through it !!!! East End quite a yuppie area now so it's a busy thoroughfare.
It is opposite John Wesley's house & next to it is still the Royal Artillery HQ & grounds - there since forever too!!!
We bought the £3 Tesco Express meal - sandwich drink & snack & had in one of the laneways.









We had tried unsuccessfully to buy our train tickets to Dover on line. They are much cheaper & crazy system where on line companies get them for you at various prices!
We went to Kings Cross ticket office & nice guy there got us £11 ticket each instead of £32 from From key South to Dover Priory. Much easier for us to get to than 3 changes on railway & tube getting to Victoria Station.
As it was NO ONE EVEN LOOKED AT OUR TICKETS BEFORE, ON OR GETTING OFF TRAIN!!!!!!!
Also that Saturday morning all the trains heading into London mucked up with Gay Pride Parade or non-existent with bus replacements for track work!!!!!

So off to our last stop...... taxi to our Air bnb - basement room, ensuite, garden. Unfortunately not the most welcome hostess!

On Sunday we went to the Methodist church service - all very friendly & welcoming. One of the members took us UP to Guston, the little village where Warren's Ashcroft/Wimble grandmother from & then Dover Castle. Incredible place - from 1100s, tunnels are medieval times to WW2. Great views over town & CRUISE SHIP TERMINAL!!!











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