Sunday 10 August 2014

Madhouse Diaries : Bodiam Castle


Yesterday, we headed off to the sleepy village of Bodiam in Sussex.


 It's only a small place but it's home to a steam railway and also a rather superb medieval castle, that we were visiting for the National Trust "50 Things To Do Before You're 11 3/4" campaign that I told you about in my previous post.


Our first challenge was to see how many people from three generations of the Madhouse Family we could fit on one bench !


Then Sophie had a chat with a passing bowman !


Time to cross the moat, marvelling at the enormous koi carp, and discover the castle itself.


"Halt, who goes there ?!"


Now that's a burglar-proof front door !


It's quite well preserved, with complete outer walls and a few towers you can climb.


Pierre knows how to take advantage of Madhouse Grandad and took the easy option for exploring the castle !


Whereas Juliette preferred exploring every nook and cranny, including these steps that led to nowhere.


And there were lots of nooks and crannies to explore !


This looked like The Lorax to me but it's apparently the Bodiam Bat !


The water in the well didn't look very appetising !


The kids discovered the medieval version of the naughty step !


Maybe this is what I need to stop Sophie talking about One Direction !

Other blogposts you may be interested in :

Madhouse Diaries : Lunch in a Breton crêperie

1 comment:

  1. Looks great there! I love visiting castles! If I could travel back to any time in history, I would go back to the times when knights rode round on horses and castles were lived in by royalty!

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