When I came back from Cambridgeshire earlier this week, I had to buy a ferry ticket for the trip to Gosport. Ferry tickets are always a return so I was left with a journey that really wasn’t much use to me.
I had been reading my Plantagenets book, and it mentioned Portchester Castle. In 1205 King John was planning a return to France to regain his Normandy Territories, he was trying to build his army of invasion and needed support from his aristocracy. William Marshall had an almighty row with the King and wouldn’t support his attempts to return to Normandy.
I thought it would be interesting to go an have a Quick Look at it, so I used the ticket to go to Portsmouth and then my bus pass to go to the castle. I didn’t pay the £11.50 to go inside where you could go to the top if the keep, but it was a lovely day so I walked around the outside of the castle, and then went back up to Portchester and caught the bus to Fareham, and then on back to Gosport.
I thought the contrails made the tower look like it was blowing its top.
Bills Posts 