Under sunny skies we leave for the Royal Naval Submarine Museum at Gosport,
next to Portsmouth.
It was quite interesting and we toured a submarine. The rest of the
museum was not crowded at all which made it very pleasant.
Apparently all British submarines had a Jolly Roger and the symbols all had a different meaning.
We stopped for a quick lunch at the Withies Inn at the village of Compton.
It dates from the 16th century and it was lovely, as was their food.
Our final stop, we had a personal tour of RAF Biggin Hill Museum. Here
the workshop restores and maintains actual flying Spitfires and Hurricanes from
WW2. Some of the Spitfires are twin seaters and for $5,000+ you can go for a 20
minute flight.
This Spitfire below, under restoration was used in the film Battle of Britain
interior shots of Spitfires.
We were so fortunate as two planes had been delayed by the weather but
finally got to fly.
It was truly an awesome way to finish our Battle of Britain tour.
I think that we both feel humble that this country experienced the very
real threat of invasion and we were able to soak some of that up and appreciate
the sacrifice of the soldiers, airmen, sailors and civilians. The courage, effort and dedication that these
people showed is truly humbling.
We returned to London and said farewell to our tour buddies, it was all
a bit sad as they were a nice group of people.
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