Millers World Cruise 2025

Millers Viking World Cruise

Dover, England

Our route– to Dover from France and then up and around the corner and down the Thames to Greenwich (just outside London).

May 4

Oh Boy! Dover. There’s not much here. Last visit found us traveling to Canterbury for a day….which was OK …once. Tomorrow, I think that we’ll focus on exercise and packing.

Dover is a port town perched on the narrowest part of the English Channel….about 21 miles across.There are about 40,000 residents in the area. They get around 360,000 visitors per year; many passing through. The web site brags that “the town center isn’t that special.” There are beaches to visit and white cliffs to walk. A museum and abandoned fortress are in the area. It seems most famous for being attacked….by the Romans when they did that kind of thing…by the French in Napoleon’s time…by the Germans in World War 2. Unless there are angry Italians, French or Germans we aren’t expecting too much action.

We walked a coastal path to the lighthouse trail and noticed these channel swimmers.
The famed white cliffs mentioned by Julius Caesar in 55BCE when the Romans were looking for a landing place. The white cliffs are from geologic activity and the white sea bottom mud (formed by sea algae skeletons turning to chalk).
Clear view of the ferry to France from the trail.
Victorian era lighthouse used to warn mariners; we love the signs.
Always windy, a great place to fly a kite and loaners available in the gift shop.

Karla walked the white cliffs to a lighthouse last time we were here. She decided to do so again and I tagged along….for the first 10,000 steps. I returned to town and looked around until the shuttle bus arrived. Karla hiked to the castle after touching the lighthouse.

Dover castle has a long history dating back to the 11th century.

The structure to the right of the church (top) is one of 3 surviving Roman lighthouses and dates to the 2nd century CE. The bottom left photo is of a plexiglass clear chair in the church, standing for those lost in WWII.
People lined up to tour the tunnels built at the end of the 1700s. Another well- illustrated sign.

We left the ship at about 9:30; she returned close to 4. Bags are now being packed, to be left outside our rooms tomorrow night. It looks like we’re really finishing.

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