Dover, England 🏴
En: Our first English city is Dover, which can be recognised due to its beautiful white cliffs, which we could admire from the sea side as we sailed into the harbour.
We got to visits Dover Castle, which was build in the 1180s by king Henry II and during the next 800 years, the castle has been rebuild with better defence and tunnels, which has been used in wartime.
Especially, was it exciting to see the underground bunker/tunnels from where operation dynamo was thought out and executed from, which saved over 300,000 soldiers were saved at Dunkirk during WWII. The same bunkers were also visited by Sir Winston Churchill during WWII.
Dk: Vores første engelske by er Dover, som kan genkendes på sine smukke hvide klipper, som vi kunne beundre fra søsiden, mens vi sejlede ind i havnen.
Vi fik mulighed for at besøge Dover Castle, som blev bygget i 1180’erne af kong Henrik II, og i løbet af de næste 800 år blev slottet ombygget med bedre forsvarsværker og tunneler, som har været brugt i krigstider.
Det var især spændende at se de underjordiske bunkere og tunneler, hvor Operation Dynamo blev planlagt og udført, og hvorfra over 300.000 soldater blev reddet ved Dunkerque under Anden Verdenskrig. De samme bunkere blev også besøgt af Sir Winston Churchill under Anden Verdenskrig.
