Rochester Castle :: visited 09.26.14 (b'twn Canterbury and London) alongside the River Medway, ruins of the first stone walls built on this site date to 1088. In 1215 a creative siege by King John, whose men blew through an outer wall with the fat of forty pigs! Now that's resourceful! A haunt of a place, where it is said 100 individuals were starved out over a two month period of time in 1215 within its keep, instead of succumbing to King John's rule. King Edward III continues to build onto the earlier walls from 1367-70.
Rochester Castle has one of the tallest keeps still surviving in all of Europe. An amazing journey wandering in and out of its niches, up and down spiraling stone steps.
