Last Full Day in Europe
We boarded another bus today and headed for Warrick Castle. Dale loves this medieval stuff, so he was really enjoying himself.
Next we visited the famous Straford on Avon where Shakespeare was born and eventually moved back to to reside there. The house in which he was born is still standing, but the house he bought when he moved back there was torn down. Apparently after he sold the house, he was so famous that people kept coming by to see the house. So instead of selling the house, the owner tore it completely down. A bit of an overreaction, don’t you think?
This is a centuries-old pub where we had lunch. Beautiful. 
We boarded the bus again to go to Oxford University. We drove through miles and miles of English countryside, seeing one amazing little village after another – all so well preserved. 
Oxford University
We continued to drive through the beautiful English countryside back to London. We came across many of these thatched-roof cottages. Our tour guide explained to us that thatching a roof is an extremely expensive process. It can cost 50 to $60,000 to thatch a roof, but they do it to preserve the heritage. Notice the bird on the top of the house. Apparently there are different types of grasses that they use for the thatching, and every thatched roof has a bird and each bird represent the type of grass that was used.
Tomorrow we head for home. I'll post one more short blog of that long day.
No comments:
Post a Comment