It's just past 7 a.m. on the North Kent coast, and the thermometer reads 26º C; another heatwave is sweeping across Europe. We're out (and back) early to beat the heat of the day.
The ruins of the 12th Century twin towers of St Mary's Church sits on the clifftop at Reculver; the same spot where Barnes Wallis made a nuisance of himself for a while during World War II, and the place where the Romans built a fort in the 2nd Century.
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