ENGLAND
| The Key to England
The cruise started from the English port Dover, called Dubris as early as the Roman times. It is situated on the narrowest point on the English Channel and thus has always been a natural seaport to Britain, the entrance to the tunnel connected to France and a witness to history. The first American president to visit England, Woodrow Wilson, landed at Dover in 1918, and so did the many soldiers who were evacuated from Dunkirk during the Second World War. It was one of the first places to be bombed during the Battle of Britain in 1940. In the picture below, the building on top of the hill behind me was the Dover Castle, built over 350 years ago and was regarded as "the Key to England". The cliff beneath it was actually white in colour and appropriately called the White Cliff. |
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