16 July: High Cross Town, UK (Tower Museum)

Hello to all in my fourth post!! (This is M). We went to the Tower Museum (more on that from Mom) and at the end there was a wooden village with a temple/church and castle inside wooden walls!! You were allowed to move everything around... so I did and made High Cross Town! It's one of the few UK towns to have democracy since the Middle Ages. In High Cross Town, the houses were closer to the walls so that everything was protected. There are three regions, which are Kildare, Ulacht and Napoleon. What I think should be the top 5 attractions in High Cross Town:

5. "Airborne Albus"

Description:

A cannon on top of the city walls. Closest to the south entrance, it gets its name from the period which it sat on top of the south entrance, which was 1552-1975.

4. The Southwest Point Museum

Description:

One of the six lookouts on the walls, it no longer remains one (a lookout) but a museum, mainly showing High Cross Town from 1489 (when it reached 1,003 people) to 1975 (end of the famines and Airborne Albus's reign).

3. The Citizen House

Description:

The house where the citizens and current government come together to decide important decisions (and, every decade, to recap it all). They first came together in 1481 and will celebrate their 250th meeting in 2015 when they choose the new president!!

2. Bri Temple

Description:

This is where from 1975 to the present day they worship Zeus (yes, they believe in the Greek gods and yes, this is 73 feet in the air and overlooking the sky). Why 1975? When the famines ended, they thought it was Zeus that stopped Hades (the famines) and ever since have worshipped him. (Bri means Power).

1. Border Castle

Description:

A castle that was built in 1399 (finished in 1481) that represents High Cross Town united together. It has Kildare's flag (green with a blue cross like the Scottish flag), Ulacht's flag (red with a white stripe), Napoleon's flag (yellow with a black canary), HCT (High Cross Town)'s flag (green with a white stripe and a black canary) and the UK flag. The 30-minute tour is totally worth it! The prices are: Adult=£10.00 Senior=£7.50 Child (u17)=£5.00 Family=£19.99.

Mom has some stuff (see way, way above this). Next from me: 5th post!! Woo-hoo!