Day 3 – Thursday 1st June

Back to the Archives

We returned to the National Archives to do further research, not only for ourselves but also for other people. After lunch we travelled down to Hythe for our last day in England. Unfortunately, this took us longer than planned as we were caught in heavy traffic trying to get out of London

Hop Fuzz takes over the SatNav

Eventually, we managed to get onto the motorway and headed out to Hythe. I have a new car and I am still practicing with its onboard sat nav. So, I tried to type in Hythe, unfortunately it picked up West Hythe -close enough, I thought. However this took us about 3 or 4 mile away from where we really wanted to be. As we went down the hill into the centre of West Hythe, we nearly passed a small sign saying “come in for beer”. This was the Hop Fuzz micro brewery which was not scheduled to be open that night therefore we’d not planned to go – however, our SatNav obviously knew better!

Arresting food!

A quick beer and then we carried on to our accommodation: The Swan Hotel. We then went for something to eat. Unfortunately, by this time, everywhere was shut as far as food was concerned, so we ended up visiting the local Aldi. Where we picked up a packaged sandwich and a pork pie, having these on the bank of the Military Canal.

Then we went to the Mariners’ Arms for a couple of locally brewed beers. Following which we walked back to our hotel.

When we arrived at the hotel, there were policemen there, and they in the process of arresting people; fortunately it was nothing to do with us!!