The Battle of Hastings 2007

13-15 April, 2007

Our final destination for the day was Westfield (East Sussex) and the first ‘battle’ was won by Jess and Pete. They beat us there by 45 seconds! We stayed in an oast house for the weekend, which is a building that was used for hanging hops centuries ago. There are a heap of them scattered over the south east of England, most are not functioning anymore though.

Our oast house was located close to the town of Battle which is the site of the famous Battle of Hastings in 1066 where William the Conqueror did some conquering.

But William wasn’t about today. Instead there was Fi the… Davo the… Jess the… and Pete the… We had our own battle. It was ferocious. All that history that we’d taken in, listening to our ear pieces, walking around the abbey and the battle fields had got to us I think. As the images portray, no blood was shed and fortunately we were all able to have a beer at the pub after a hard faught Battle of Hastings 2007. History will remember this day.

We also checked out a few local castles, Bodingham and Pevensy and learnt a bit more history along the way which was very cultural of us.