Cliffsend

I've had a slow, lazy day today, just ambling up the south eastern coast of England. Stuffed face on a proper brekkie in Deal, then drove up to a place called Cliffsend, where my road map showed a Viking ship.

Lo and behold, there WAS a Viking ship there - of sorts. Not a proper old one, but a recent product of Danish ingenuity. Apparently more than a dozen Danes sailed a spanking new ship over in 1949 to commemorate the landing of Danish chieftains Hengist & Horsa 1500 years prior and the ship wound up here thanks to the sponsorship of the Daily Mail. Stwange but twue.

All pics here.

Coastline to the north.


The ship is called the Hugin. (Hugin was one of Odin's ravens who flew around and gathered information and brought news back to him... a sort of ancient Drudge report.)


Here it is, in all its might.