Corfe Castle

Day 54: Tuesday

After the usual morning routine, we packed our lunches and head out to the bus stop to go to Corfe Castle. We took the bus to Poole, then hopped on the bus to the castle. The ride was about 45 minutes, and we drove through adorable English towns and countryside. When we made it to the castle, we took the trail for the short walk up through the village to the castle. It is a ruined castle and no longer intact, but it is nevertheless cool to explore. We walked around the castle for a couple hours, took pictures, and finally decided to sit down and eat our lunch like proper English people. The castle had more children than I would prefer, and they were all the very energetic, running, screaming type of children. One little boy tried to eat a rock! I laughed forever about it. Still laughing. After our sufficient lunch, we wandered back down into the village. We checked out the church, then decided to go into a pub. When we finished we went to the sweet shop to get candy and postcards. The bus was going to come in about 20 minutes, and we didn’t really want to wait another whole hour for it, so we went back down the path to the bus stop to go home. The bus was about 10 minutes late, but we made it on. I slept on the way to Poole, and we had perfect timing to catch the bus to Broadstone because we didn’t have to wait at all. When we arrived home, granny was making dinner, and we had some tea, and shortly after dinner was served. The dumplings were absolutely delicious! I am always so stuffed after dinner, but dessert is always too delicious, and I have found I’m a big fan of custard. Dessert tonight was plumb pie with custard. After dinner, Elli and I showered and went back to work on our proposals. We have both decided that the course was virtually nonexistent, and the prompt is stupid and has nothing to do with what we actually learned. I would much rather write about art history and the things that Rocky told us in relation to the Florentine Histories instead of it related to the EU. I guess I’ll just have to see what Petrie says about my proposal. We have also been playing a lot of card games on our computer due to the lack of internet. I’m getting quite good at hearts! Only one more full day until we move again, and we plan on going to Wimborne tomorrow. I have been feverishly working away at trying to catch up on my blog and remember everything that happened during the two weeks I didn’t have a computer.