Our Frank Adventures: Three Months in Colchester, Essex

Well, now that we are relocating we can write about the town we've been living in for nearly three months now.

We were lucky to have landed in the beautiful town of Colchester, located in North Essex county of England. Lucky because it is the oldest recorded town in England, dating back to before 49 AD, when it was a Roman city. Following it's Roman occupation there is about a 400 year gap in what life was like in Colchester before it was occupied by the Saxons in 400AD.

The castle we have walked past countless times, and wrote about in both of our main blog, and photographed in previous entries here, is an English castle built atop the ruins of the Temple of Claudius. With an interesting history (which we'll try to write more about in a following entry).

There are many historical sites in Colchester; a project is underway where they are unearthing an old Roman Colosseum that the town of Colchester was built on top of. Also located in the town are the ruins of the earliest known Christian church in England, thought to date back to the 4th century.

With old Roman walls surrounding the castle grounds, the lush green grass in Castle Park that surrounds the cast, with lush bright green grass that rivals that of a golf courses, and beautiful River Colne running along the edge, full of ducks, swans (read about the swans: http://just-call-me-frank.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/all-queens-swans.html), and assorted waterfowl, Colchester really was a beautiful place to spend the last three months. (Read more about the area, and how we feel about James moving away for us: http://just-call-me-frank.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/sacrifice-of-love-journal-entry.html)

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There will be another series of photos of Colchester in the following entry, because we don't want to go get the camera to plug it in to get the photos off of it...it's... *points in distance, which is really four feet away* ...over there; as well as some more writing about our experience there.

In the meantime, check out all the photos we've taken and posted so far. The town really is breathtaking.