Finally a house in America flying the correct flag lol! ;)

Williamsburg is a quite clean and historic town. The focus here is on its settler past etc. Lots of older buildings and people wearing traditional/ period costumes etc..here the horse and cart ride has found new life.

Williamsburg street market.today. its very touristy and expensive but it is nice..lots of crafty stuff and weird types of honey etc lol!

This is the first sign I saw with the magic word on it.....Yorktown!

For a couple of hours today I was riding amoungst rider doing the Virginia triathlon race...there were loads of them...maybe a hundred or more all on flash carbon triathlon bikes....I couldn't resist it...so for a mile or so I pushed myself to the limit and kept pace with four of them...probably.the four slowest riders but hey...I'm fully loaded...they were all friendly and saying hi etc....then one guy says....hey buddy you're making us look bad ..been trying to catch you a while...man that's a lot of shot to carry...lol!
Inevitably I lost the race but it got me into Williamsburg a bit quicker than o.had thought!

Views from this mornings ride along the James river and the chicahominy river approaching Williamsburg.

Riding along the James river this morning along the colonial parkway towards Williamsburg.

Well bloody 'ell eh...this is map 150 of 150!!

The houses around here are very nice...this one caught my eye.

Tonights free accomodations....I have all kinds of cool toys to keep me occupied!

Today is a sunnier day than yesterday ...I woke to blue skies and decided to hang around this area today and see more civil war sites instead of pushing on to the coast just yet. I have plenty of time now.
I rode along the Richmond battlefield national park trail and spent all morning riding where thousands had fought so many years ago. The trail is superbly looked after, there are next to zero cars, the road is perfect and the battlefields are marked well so you get a good feel.for what eS going on at the time. Back then there were few trees and the battlefields seemed to be more open than the dense woodlands that now cover them. I rode towards Richmond and along the lines of confederate forts and trenches that had protected the souths capital from union troops. The forts and interconnecting trenches are still clearly visable.
I rode from the union line over no man's land to the confederate line at Malvern hill...didn't take long..so I videod it.

About 2pm I decided to go back to the church I stayed at last night and the pastor kindly said I was very welcome to.stay tonight again....so I rode to the store, got some food and here I am..back in church...the church where confederate troops must have rested before going up to the attack at Malvern.hill just along the road....7000 of them didn't come back that day...and none of them reached the union artillery line on the hill....which isn't really a hill...more of a slight incline...in a corn.field.

Huge bamboo plants in the fields here this morning

Shots from the battlefield at Malvern hill today

My bedroom tonight

This house is right on the old front line...nice gaff ain't it!

Savage station...the railway is still there behind the trees

The fighting here was in a swamp...didn't kill off the mosquitos though!

Union trenches just metres from.the confederate trenches

Garthright house scene of much sufferrong by wounded soldiers