DUNKIRK TO SCOTLAND

Leaving Dunkirk.

 Couldn't help thinking about the 500,000 Allied Servicemen who were evacuated from here in 1940.

Ship anchored in the middle of The English Channel or La Manche as the French call it.

The beach at Deal

From the end of the pier.

My first pint of English beer being pulled by a barman of "The Kings Head", who had spent the Australian summer touring around with "The Barmy Army"!

 Good it was too!

Standing in the doorway of Rosabels cottage in Deal where we stayed. Rosabel was a schoolfriend of Cathy.

We stopped over at Chalgrove, near Oxford with Elsie, Cathys" sister and husband Ian. Very comfortable with an excellent Fish and Chip supper from a travelling Romanian (?)"Chippie" washed down with an Australian Chardonnay.

Crossing the Scottish Border.

View from "our" bedroom at Wilma and Jimmys'

Poppies in a field of wheat behind the house.

and Rose Bay Willow Herb colonising the verges.



The River Esk with Monkton Hall golf course behind.

The Roman Bridge in Musselburgh. Edward II of England fled over this bridge after his defeat at Bannockburn. It played its part in the Battle of Pinkie and was crossed by the armies of Cromwell and Bonnie Prince Charlie. In 1597 the Old Scottish Parliament passed an Act for its repair.

Cathy lived in the Street in the background, Inveresk Road, up to the age of 7.

Peaceful today.

Bus outside Musselburgh Town Hall.