Since we couldn’t eat dinner at our hotel, we decided to trek to HEVER CASTLE.
It was sort of a TRIAL RUN to be sure that we could easily find it the next morning
– simultaneously looking for a place to EAT as we drove there.

As it happened, that was a WISE MOVE, for several reasons!

First; we found Hever Castle just as they were closing for the day. But, we thus were
able to learn that; because Ruby used a CANE to walk about, we “qualified” for the
“Accessible Parking” (“handicapped” parking) area. That area that was
FAR CLOSER to the festivities than the PUBLIC PARKING areas!
We wouldn’t have known about it, had we not done our “reconnaissance” trip. LOL

THEN, as we were leaving, we saw St. Peter’s Church – just outside the
Hever Castle grounds. The church was closed already. But it looked so quaint and
inviting that we walked for a while among the incredibly old graves in the
“KIRK YARD.”

Most old grave stones (1800’s and earlier) are so weathered that their inscriptions
no longer can be deciphered. Such was the case in this Kirk Yard.
Still, it was rather impressive to walk amongst these historic stones –
especially when they were too old to be read!

Of all the amazingly old grave stones we saw, THIS ONE had a legible inscription
that was particularly impressive … moving … MEMORABLE.

Here is the Upper Inscription: SACRED To The Memory of Agnes Nightingale Daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann Nightingale Died Sept 24th, 1846 Aged 8 Years & 7 Months

Below THAT, the Inscription read:

Most lovely Bud so young and fair
Called hence by early doom.
Just came to Show how sweet a Flower
In Paradise would bloom.

Gadz! I cried when I first deciphered the inscription …
Cried as I took pix of it …
CRIED when I posted its inscription on this page!

I think that qualifies as a “MOVING” inscription. Don’t you?!

[As you’ll see on SUNDAY’s pages, we managed to visit the church the next day.
It’s WONDERFUL!
Had we not done this “reconnaissance” trip, we probably wouldn’t have visited it!]

Happily, we had seen this lovely Country Pub while enroute to Hever Castle. So, we stopped here for Dinner. It was SCRUMPTIOUS!

ALL the people there were very, VERY friendly and helpful …
HAPPY to take care of a couple o’ YANKS! LOL

The architecture and décor were TOO WONDERFUL.

And, best of all, THE FOOD WAS FANTASTIC!

I had a SCOTCH EGG with some kind of pickled relish for a “Starter.”
Ruby had never heard of a Scotch Egg … So, she took a pic! LOL

I forget what our Entrees were that night … but, I distinctly remember both of them
being incredibly YUMMY. In fact, we enjoyed ourselves so much, that we
came back to have dinner there AGAIN, the NEXT NIGHT!

GO TO THE NEXT PAGE:
SUNDAY, May 28th;
Dressed for The HEVER CASTLE MERRIE ENGLAND FAIRE

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