Monday 25th April

This morning we had a good look around Figsbury ring.

The earthworks are truly enormous - it is very difficult to imagine how the iron age people with only picks and shovels managed to build something so vast.

We moved on the short distance to Old Sarum - another hill fort but this time principally constructed on the orders of William 1 (The Conqueror) in the 11th to 12th Century.

The banks and ditches here are even more impressive than at Figsbury Ring.

Outside the fortress there are the remains of a cathedral. This was demolished in the 13th Century during a period of tension between the church and state and rebuilt in the City of Salisbury nearby.

You can see the "new" cathedral from the castle ramparts.

The stone facing from the castle was removed during the reign of Henry V111 and today only the flint core of the walls remains.

The site was excavated by these Edwardian gents.

From Old Sarum we traveled to Ann's daughter Kerry and her husband Gareth's house in Kent where we are staying the night. Henry, Kerry and Gareth's son, seems to be trying to balance a Rugby ball on Ann's head!

Kerry and Gareth's, parking place used to be very rough and muddy but now they have a superior surface as you can see.

Today we traveled 137 miles (221 kilometres).