Always Something To Learn

Saturday morning in a Premiere Inn for breakfast, it seems like a regular thing of late.
Out and about in Chatham all day meant that by the time we returned my Fitbit had gone into overdrive.
We walked to the Royal Engineers Museum and spent three really interesting hours looking around. It’s not a big museum but there is a lot packed into it.
I never knew that Gordon of Khartoum, Glubb Pasha and Mick Mannock VC started their careers as Royal Engineers, nor that the Royal Engineers had accumulated such a wealth of souviniers.
We then walked to the Chatham Royal Naval Memorial. I remember it well, high on the hill looking down over the dockyard you could see it clearly. One of three Base Port Memorials, the other two being Plymouth and Portsmouth, sadly due to vandalism it’s now kept locked.
Down to Chatham itself, of course it’s changed over forty odd years, but I remembered parts of it.
We walked along Dock Road to the new retail complex on part of the site of the old dockyard where we ate U.S style food in Hancocks, not really to my liking but happy to go with the majority.
We finally got back around nine at night, sore footed, tired but having had a great day.