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[@Samantha-xr4mx]

Looks like a proper castle from childhood books ❤

[@brigidsingleton1596]

I used to work (& live) in Battle, East Sussex, years ago . (1980's) and loved it there. The battle was supposed to have taken place on Senlac Hill, by the way, and the Abbey was built by the Norman Duke, "William the Bastard" (on the site where King Harold was killed) as he was called before he became known as 'William the Conqueror, and King.

[@EmmaJonYoureWelcome]

It does look like bowzers castle! That looks like a really lovely beach 🏖️ 🌧️ xx

[@JJExtra]

Glad I’m not the only one who thinks that lol. Beach is beautiful… especially when the weather is better! ~ Jason

[@chrisisjustme7546]

I lolled when Jason said if the seagulls were making babies it keeps them off your chips... classic line! 😅

[@JJExtra]

It could become the new “kiss me quick” of seaside resort merch 🤣

[@chrisisjustme7546]

@@JJExtra 😅

[@alexanderallan215]

King Harold, is the one rumored to have taken an arrow to the eye.

[@leahking3976]

I really enjoy watching your videos, your both really funny and have a great sense of humour so keep the videos coming please.

[@JJExtra]

Thank you Leah, glad you are enjoying them and we have no plans to stop!

[@louisefunnell]

Mayo & black pepper every time!

[@JJExtra]

Oo will have to try it with the black pepper too next time

[@LollipopTheBear]

Agree with Josh on the mayo front, sorry Jason x

[@JJExtra]

Yay 🥳

[@jpnbronx323]

Team mayonnaise. I watch on the television so don't always stop to comment or like. But I always do try to like, not sure if it takes. Thanks for many enjoyable tours and insights. Hello from the Bronx.

[@GrimwrathGaming]

another great video lads!

[@JJExtra]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@markburgess6801]

The glamping site the Original Hut company is also there in the village you should try that out they have shepherd hut cabins

[@karenriggs4560]

Glad you both enjoyed your sausage sandwich in my favourite cafe Battle Deli!!!

[@JJExtra]

It was delicious 😋

[@karenmyers3565]

As a US viewer, thank you for the sandy beach. I'm still looking forward to when the weather is warmer, and you guys actually get in the water! Good job guys. I always enjoy your videos. I appreciate the cost of what you eat. I gives me an idea if I ever get to visit.

[@JJExtra]

We are very much looking forward to the warmer weather too…. It’s coming 🤞🏻

[@Samantha-xr4mx]

❤ love your videos ❤

[@JJExtra]

Thank you ☺️

[@EvaNemetKonc]

This was great, thank you!

[@JJExtra]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@weedle30]

Another vid that made me smile like this 😊😊 guuud jarrrrrbbbb boys! A long time ago - in times known as LifeBC (before children 😉) - my husband, also an EH member, was invited to a Festival of Music at Battle Abbey (I was the fee paying +1 😏) we duly drove to Battle, parked up (can’t remember if we had to pay to park or not but I’m sure it wouldn’t have costed £4!! 😂 ) and we had to join the queue to be transported to the seating area in a Land Rover, going across the really “rear end” aching rough ground! The seating area was up very high, looking “down” on the Abbey in the distance, in a wooded area (it was a deliberately cleared showground spectator spot, so all ok!) We were not sure just what to expect but sat down ready to be entertained … and it was a then identified as a Battle of Britain showpiece - with the military bands from the British Army, RAF and the Navy. It was one of those moments when you can sense “their” pride wearing their majestic Dress uniforms as The Dragoon Guards, Scottish pipers and the Irish Guards paraded around the beautiful background of Battle Abbey as they played some typical military music, tunes we would associate with WWII and some “pop” music. It was so rousing and entertaining and all in all bloody brilliant….. but the highlight was yet to come… It was late afternoon but still very light as it was June and it suddenly seemed that sound of the music being played over the mics had got very low … ooerr.. had something gone wrong?? For the hundred of us in the audience, we were saying “Hope they can fix this” when there was this thrummmmmmmmming noise coming from overhead - it was very low and a little bit menacing … and then the sound got louder and then instantly recognisable…. It was two Spitfires flying overhead doing whirls in the sky….ohhhhhhh..l it was one of those heart pumping lump in the throat, feeling proud and patriotic of your country moments as us peeps in the audience cheered with delight at seeing them and then… The bands started playing Rule Britannia ….. honest, there wasn’t a dry eye in the audience! We cheered and clapped and did some more cheering and then the festival organisers played those familiar songs from WWII that we could singalong to. There were clever clog knowalls in the audience who had prior knowledge of the evening and had brought flags to wave. I so wanted a flag to wave! It was a bit like Last Night of the Proms and no one considered it jingoistic nonsense - it was just all round good but emotional fun - thinking about it now, even though it was years ago, still makes me 🥲🥲 it was a glorious day/evening out. I’ve been to Bodiam Castle too but have you visited Goudhurst at all? It is one of my most favourite villages in Kent - stunningly pretty! If you haven’t, it’s worth a look as there’s lots to see and investigate! Hope you enjoyed reading my memories of Battle Abbey, sorry but I know I can waffle on! 😊

[@JJExtra]

We absolutely love hearing about everyone else’s experiences and memories so please keep them coming. We have been to Goudhurst, it was actually featured briefly in this video last year kzbin.info/www/bejne/pavbZ5-MfJ2KlZIsi=RKlM_6XA61V-DFWQ

[@weedle30]

@@JJExtra oh thank you for the linky 👍🏻 I have now watched and enjoyed that beauty! Cannot understand how I missed it the first time around! 😨😥 but all is now present and correct! Yes, Goudhurst and Sissinghurst, truly living up to the (deserved) status of AONB! Lovely video and glorious scenery and my favourite castle is also Scotney; you are right, it doesn’t “look” typically English more like a little French chateau in the Loire valley 😄 I’ve only been to one chateau sadly but it was still grande et beau! On to “not so pretty” things - have you heard of the Grasshopper Inn in Westerham - it WAS (emphasis on the was 😨) a stunning Inn dating back to 1271!! Over the years it has been “modernised” - good and bad 🙄- and way back in the 1970’s (probably before you were born! 😲) it was the pub I and my group of mates would go to, for a “posh” night out - it was a bit of a drive out from Orpington etc but it was the place to go if you were celebrating something special etc. Tudor beams, stained glass windows and a grand piano and the bedrooms named after Henry VIII and his wives 🤫 The other day, I was looking for something on YT and I just happened to see a link about the Grasshopper and having pleasant memories of the place, I was wondering (and hoping) that it was still the same. Watching the video, I was both horrified and saddened to see this once allegedly “historic” pub was in such a state of squalor and has just been left in a state of ruin!! The reason the link was on YT was because a group of men whose “hobby” it is to visit abandoned buildings had “broken in” to the pub and armed with a vid cam was filming inside, giving a running commentary, whilst trying to not be seen by the security guard sitting in his car in the car park, supposedly “protecting” the premises! One of the bedrooms still has a four poster bed in place! And the piano is still there too…… I just wondered if you knew had heard about this pub and if you knew what was going to happen to it? I’ve looked on the Kent websites - plans to build a 65 bed care home etc 🤷 . Some group or company has to be responsible for the decimation of the pub and seeing it as it is now and not how it used to be, has made me 🤬🤬🤬🤬 if you do know, please advise! I might write a strong letter to my MP 😂

[@JohnAleman1]

Nice day out vlog there guys your both so 😂was missing the cakes but that cookie made up for it 😁 got to agree Rye is lovely

[@JJExtra]

We definitely didn’t hesitate when we saw those cookies 😂

[@PETE1769]

good video boys

[@JJExtra]

Thanks Pete! Glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@stinajones9847]

Mayo all the way! 😂 I love following along on your adventures. My bucket list grows with every video. ❤

[@JJExtra]

Not on a sausage and bacon sandwich, come on 😂 Thanks for following along, more bucket list places incoming 😊

[@totallytony]

Love coming along on these adventures with you guys!! ❤this castle was awesome. It’s gone on my ever growing list :)

[@JJExtra]

We love having you for the journey 💙 time to start ticking some of those list items off 😉

[@tralfaz]

I can hear the be-ells. Tracy Turnblad would be happy

[@JJExtra]

🤣💁🏻‍♀️

[@Erika-Uwe]

Hello Boys ,just the right video we needet today ,fun ,great sites to see(beautiful) and wow , what a beach ! ...thank you so much for sharing ❤greetings from rainy and cold hamburg

[@JJExtra]

Our pleasure! Glad the video was able to brighten your cold and wet day. Dont worry summer is on the way! 😊

[@Liamf986]

I used to live near here it’s so beautiful we’re lucky to have such fairytale castles and really old buildings not long Discovered you guys! great content 💙

[@JJExtra]

Welcome to the channel Liam. It’s a fantastic place to visit and you are 100% right. So easy to take everything on our doorstep for granted.

[@robnewman6101]

Sussex 14th Century Fortress.

[@richardd.2988]

Cinco de Mayo today so, Mayonnaise for the win!

[@JJExtra]

🤣

[@stefanoricci9978]

Did you go to Winchelsea,? i think that my favorite village in that area.

[@JJExtra]

No we have never been but it’s on our list now, thank you ☺️

[@markburgess6801]

king harold

[@robnewman6101]

Papperback DK Eyewitness Book of CASTLE.

[@markburgess6801]

Ah guys if you vist bodgum thats how locals pronaounce it at the station my station master friend Bernie works at the station on Sundays.

[@JJExtra]

That train is on our to do list at some point as it looks a lot of fun

[@dpelpal]

I could swear that castle was in "Braveheart" as well🤷‍♀️

[@JJExtra]

We can’t find anything to say it was but it’s possible

[@dpelpal]

@@JJExtra I looked it up...turns out all the castles they used were in Ireland. The one I was thinking of was actually Trim Castle in Co. Meath, Ireland. It's strikingly similar but has no moat.

[@robnewman6101]

Oh yeah. Can you imagine how Police-less the Medivals were back then?! No Constabulary either. No Emergency Services to help you with situations, centries ago.

[@jaxandrontraveladventures1566]

Great video guys, another laughable one 😂 I remember when I was a kid that rhubarb and custard chewy sweets and black jacks were 1/2p each lol and the bacon and sausage sandwich is definitely a brown sauce, mayo is wrong on every level lol 👍🏼

[@JJExtra]

Glad you enjoyed it… and that you agree with me on the sauce choice 😃 ~ Jason

[@robnewman6101]

Hardback DORLING KINDERSLEY DK EYEWITNESS GUIDES Book of MEDIEVAL LIFE. Discover medieval Europe - from life in a country manor to the streets of a developing town.

[@markburgess6801]

bodge em -instead of bodiam.