Thursday, June 23, 2016

June 16, 2016 - Christchurch Oxford, Stratford-upon-Avon & Warwick Castle

I had purchased a tour from Groupon before we left home and the first stop was Oxford.  This is a memorial to all those who lost their lives because of their religious beliefs.
The Ashmolean Museum of art and archeology is free to visit.  We did not have time...this visit.
We walked through the pedestrian street to Christchurch College.





Christchurch

The intricacy of the ceilings always amaze me.

The dinning hall is the hall that gave JK Rowling the idea for the dinning hall for Hogwarts.

From Oxford we headed to Stratford-upon-Avon.
The birthplace and home of William Shakespeare.
This was the end of a female bike race so it made it a little more difficult to get to some parts of the town.

This is the only time on the tour that it was raining so we saw little of the town and a lot of the inside of different shops while waiting for the rest of the tour group to finish visiting the birthplace of Shakespeare.

Then we were off to Warwick Castle.  This would be a very fun place for kids to come to that the parents would have just as much fun.
Ballistic
The view from inside the walls to the castle. 

The rooms were set up as if you were there visiting with the people that lived there.
They had audio going in each of the rooms that were conversations that they would have had in that day.

Looking down on the great hall.

The castle walls from inside.

Watching them set up and launch a bolder from the trebuchet was fun.
We missed the bird of prey show but they still had them where you could see them up close.
We picked the right time to visit the peacock garden.
The peacocks were strutting their stuff.  It was an awesome site to look all around you and see them showing off.


The grounds are really picturesque.

On our ride back into London it was raining very hard and as we entered London the streets were flooded but as we got closer to the center you could tell it had hardly even sprinkled.  
We passed by this church on our walk home from the Victoria train station.











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