The battle abby

The battle Abbey was very fun and exiting.

In 1066, William the Conquerer sailed from France Normandy. He sailed his boats to Hastings and took over England. He defeated Harold. Harold and his army lost because they had just been  to York an defeated the vikings at Stamfod Bridge. They they had to walk to Hastings in 5 days and fight again. The men were very tired.

William the Conquerer came with 7000 men and lots of horses.

Morgan and I painted a shield each. I did colours everywhere and Morgan painted a dragon head on his shield.

We went on a kids trail and had to punch stamps into the trail paper with little tiny spikes which had the clues.

We learned lots of things about the battle of Hastings. We picked up the swords and shields and they where very heavy. 

The long man

The long man is 70 feet tall and made entirely out of chalk. It is a picture drawn in the hillside.

 No one knows who made it or what it's there. It has been there for thousands of years.

We went to walk up the pathway , but it was too muddy and slippery.  I tried to take a  photo but was too dark for the photo to work out.

Bodiam castle

Sir Edward Dalyngrigge ordered a castle to be built as a defence for him and his wife to live safely in.

It was built in the late 13 hundreds at Bodiam in Sussex South East England.

There's  a moat round the whole castle.

It's near a big river in a valley.

I climbed to the top of a 2 huge towers with very steep stone steps that went round and round.

Leeds castle maze

Leeds castle maze is made out of hedges and fences. The hint of the hole maze is turn right at every corner.if you have more than one person the first  person to get to the end which has a tower that you can see the hole maze from the top and you can lead your friend or Family to the end of the maze.

Cooking

Today I cooked risotto and cookies.

The cookies were made Out of oats,water,butter and coconut.

The risotto was made out of rice,butter and vegetable stock in a pan.

I stirred the risotto rice until it took up all the stock flavour and soaked into the rice  then put vegetables in it and put the pan lid on the top of the pan.

This is me making cookies.

This is me making risotto.

The royal pavilion

The royal pavilion is a very large Indian building because king George the l V liked Indian architecture. He wanted a place where all his friends could stay and somewhere which was very different to all other castles. He made it himself for all his friends because he liked to drink and eat and party all night long.

Brighton is a popular place to go to the seaside. It has ben popular ever since the 1800s. It got even more popular because George had his parties there.

The rooms are very magnificent. There are dragons everywhere.

Hastings castle

This castle was built in the 11th century.

This is where the battle of Hastings started. William the Conquerer landed here with all of his troops and then marched to Battle where the actual battle took place.

The castle used to have a church and a chapter house.King Henry the 8th ordered all of the churches riches to be given to the king, so this was the end of the churches in most places.

William the Conquerer built it to celebrate his victory of the battle of Hastings. This was in 1066.