Easter: Day 4

On Easter Monday we went to Warwick Castle. It was a 40-60 minute drive from MH situated in the historic town of Warwick.

Will Shakespare is from Warwick and did his best work just up the road in Stratford-on-avon. It is full of Tudor era houses where not one wall lines up with the other! Makes you sense the history, when someones house has been standing longer than our country has been in existence (well officially anyway).

Anyway managed to join a queue of about a million people. The English LOVE queuing. Think fat kids and cake and you are starting to get the picture. The English will join a queue, for example, at the post office, even if the don't have anything to post. If you stand with friends in single file it won't take long for a queue to join behind you! You may laugh, but I'm not joking - happened to us at Marks and Spencer once.

Anyway, we managed to usurp the queue because we had Madison. (I knew having kids must have a pay off now and then).

The Castle itself has evolved over the centuries, but the oldest part of it dates back to the 12th century. We're talking Blackadder I days. Man thats old. Although I think some of the people towards the front of the queue might have been there for the opening ceremony!

There are so many things to see at the castle. Each part is self contained, and each part had it's own queue. Suffice to say we didn't get a chance to see the whole thing this time. The bits we did see where awesome. There was a mock battle, complete with Knights and Archers.

There was a tour of the renovated part of the Castle which dates back to 1920. The main hall was amazing, lined with suits of armour.

The thing that struck me was how small the Armour was. I guess people have grown over the last 800 years.

Great day, and we will be back.