The Rupert Bear Museum :

In the museum, we can :

^{The museum has opened in Stour Street, in Canterbury, because Rupert’s creator Mary Tourtel was born in the city.}

The Roman Museum is underground at the level of the Roman town. It’s an exciting mix of excavated real objects: authentic reconstructions; and preserved remains of a Roman town house with its famous mosaics.

Reconstructions include a Roman market place, with a shoe maker, fabric seller and fruit and vegetable stall. There is also part of a house with its kitchen set out in authentic detail.

A skilful computer program brings together pictures of the excavations on the site, and from the archaeologists’ detail it generates reconstruction images of what the great house found here was like in Roman times.

There is also a test your skills touch screen computer game on Roman technology; and at the end of the museum is the acclaimed “touch the past” area where the visitor can handle real Roman artefacts and follow the archaeologist’s skills of deduction.

The impressive pillared entrance is in Butchery Lane and very close to the Cathedral.

Jane Austen’s house :

Jane Austen (December 16th, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire – July 18th, 1817, Winchester) is an English literary woman. Her realism, her caustic social criticism and her workmanship of free indirect speech, her sense of the burlesque and her irony gave her an important place among broadly read and appreciated English writers..

All her life, Jane Austen resided within a small close family cell, belonging to the English gentry. She owes her education to a great extent to her father and to her elder brothers, as well as to her own readings. The unfailing support of her family is essential for her evolution as a professional writer

Jane Austen lived here, in Chawton, during her final years but now this house is a museum.

Royal Tunbridge Wells

                                                                               image prise sur wikipedia

Royal Tunbridge Wells (usually shortened to Tunbridge Wells) is a town in west Kent, England, about 31 miles (50 km) south-southeast of central London, bordering the county of East Sussex. It is situated at the northern edge of the High Weald, the sandstone geology of which is exemplified by the rock formations at the Wellington Rocks and High Rocks.

The town came into being as a spa in Georgian times and had its heyday as a tourist resort under Richard (Beau) Nash when the Pantiles and its chalybeate spring attracted visitors who wished to take the waters. Though its popularity waned with the advent of sea bathing, the town remains popular and derives some 30% of its income from the tourist industry.^[1]

The town has a population of around 56,500^[2] and is the administrative centre of Tunbridge Wells Borough and the UK parliamentary constituency of Tunbridge Wells. In the United Kingdom Tunbridge Wells has a reputation as being the archetypal “Middle England” town, a stereotype that is typified by the fictional letter “Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells”.^[3]

The church of King Charles the Martyr

The chalybeate spring at the Pantiles

An 1860 engraving of The Calverley Hotel, on Decimus Burton’s Calverley estat

Calverley Crescent, part of the Calverley Park estate

The Royal Victoria Place shopping centre

The LMS Jinty operated by the Spa Valley Railway

The gardens at Calverley Grounds

Winchester :

Winchester is a city of the south of England, capital of the county of Hampshire. 

The round Table of King Arthur and the knights, is a wooden table suspended in the Great Hall since 1348. Dating back to the XIIIth century or beginning of the XIVth century, it was painted only in 1522 under the orders of King Henry VIII. Places at the table are divided with an alternation of green and white colours. The name of each of 24 knights is written in gold letters. The face of the king is not that of Arthur, but that of Henry VIII. In the centre, we can see a rose. 

The castle of Hampton Court is a castle located in the region of Richmond-upon-Thames in the southwest of London in England. It was the favourite residence of king Henry VIII.

It is a palace full of marvels (pictures, sculptures) but also extremely rich in culture. During almost 200 years, the castle of Hampton Court was in the centre of the royal household, in politics as well as in the history of the nation.

Dover is a coastal and port city of the county of Kent, in the Southeast of England. It is located on the coast, 35 km off the French coasts and cape Grey-nose. It is therefore the city of United Kingdom that is the closest to France . This situation makes the harbour a major place for transit between England and the continent, notably towards the harbours of Calais and Ostende. More than 18 million passengers  pass in transit through Dover yearly.