August 1, 2000 | August 3, 2000 | Zulu One's Essex-cellent Adventure

Today was the first day proper of the holiday. As navigator of our group, I managed to get us to the Great Maze, which I solved in about a quarter of an hour (average solution time is an hour). I also decided to share with you the secrets of navigation, a work which will be in progress when I get back.

After the easy solution of the largest maze in the world, we went to Hedingham Castle, just to the North. It was besieged twice and is owned by the descendants of the original owners. As I've been to almost every castle in South West Scotland, it was nothing special to me, but it was quite informative.