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As part of the Arcadia/Nikki/Kent-area adventure, we went to Leeds Castle. Leeds Castle is AWESOME. If you are in England for a while, you should make your way up there. Also, it is not in Leeds. I KNOW. Dumb. It's in Kent. Just accept it. I was very tired today, and we'd just been to Canterbury, so I was a little delirious, but I found all the little bits of energy I had left when I saw friggn PEACOCKS running around outside!!! Seriously, they were ALLLLL over the place!!! They had...

For those people interested in the history of conficts in the world the Military Odyssey is a must. This three day event brings together the best and the most re-enactment groups in the world. These includes groups from Americas putting on battles from the American Civil War as well as those from the second world war and the gulf conflict. As a person who is interested in the English Civil war it was a prime time for me to see a re-enactment of a battle that included some 600 people. The main...

Our final stop for the day was Leeds Castle which is just fantastic. I really don't want to write much about this place, I'll let the photos speak for themselves. My favourite bit (which I discovered rather late) were the lovely gardens arranged like a maze. See the  final few photos. The castle's interiors were ok, nothing to write home about but Leeds Castle being a residential castle has a wonderful surrounding of lakes, moats, gardens, parks, the works... it evoked memories...

When I was new in town and the foreign exchange people still had hope for me, I was invited on a group outing to Leeds Castle. As the review mentions, it was gloomy and cold, but I thought it might be a good time, anyway.It was nice to get out, and I actually felt like I was doing something instead of stagnating - a feeling that persisted starting about the third day. It's funny, the first day you spend traveling, the second you feel justified just resting, but the third you realize that you ...

    Today, we are to visit our good friends that live in Aylesford.  Aylesford is just outside of Maidstone.  So, after sitting and chatting a bit, we all headed out towards Maidstone for a bit of shopping and roaming about.  My friend Mary is also a big crafter, as are her daughters.  Poor Jaap had to hang out being bored to tears while we roamed about a giant hobby shop.  He did survive though.Afterwards, it was clothes shopping for Jaap and Mary's yo...

Leeds castle is the most beautiful castle in England, that's what the folder said. I haven't seen that many other castles, but yet I might believe it. In the building itself one can see paintings of Breugel and Magritte, but it 's the garden that really is a must to visit. It is huge. The funniest to do was walking the labyrinth. Well, actually it was a maze... so we had to find our way out of it. We didn't... So in the end we followed some other people and after a while we managed t...