Warwick Castle

We woke to a heavy mist, which we would ordinarily call a fog. After a wonderful breakfast cooking our fresh farm eggs with delicious bacon, we headed off towards Warwick Castle. It opened at 10 am so we attempted to get there as early as possible - lucky we did, as the car park was already filling fast. Despite the crowds and the exhorbitant cost, our visit was much fun and we each enjoyed our day at this magnificent castle. We climbed to the castle top and felt like we were doing the 1000 step staircase at Katoomba - it kept going up in a steep spiral that made me quite giddy. Once at the top, the views were awesome.

One part of the castle, a large mound was built in 1068 on order by William the Conqueror - now that is seriously old!

We went into a part of a castle that is the ghost tour and were scared out of our brains but we also laughed heaps at the theatrics of the ghosts who appeared out of no where. We took a picnic lunch which a peacock was determined to share with us. The grounds around the castle are magificent. Today it was filled with families and locals enjoying the sunshine which appeared at around noon. It was an amazing taste of history and of times long gone. Last night Keith watched an episode of "The Tudors", which is yet to show in Australia. It was incredibly violent and I had to stop watching. It was about the time when King Henry VIII was married to Anne Boleyn. A number of innocent people lost their lives, just so Henry could move onto a new wife - Jane Seymour. Henry owned Warwick Castle, although he never lived there.

Jonathan enjoyed the horses and armour:

He also enjoyed the trebauchet:

While I enjoyed the different banners and these were magnificent:

We returned home to Broadway after a wonderful day tasting history and a different era completely to ours. I then went out to our local village to buy bits and pieces and set about cooking for the first time from scratch on Margaret's Aga - a wonderful oven that is constantly on. It was delicious. I bumped into a woman in the village who told me that she didn't want to go home, she was enjoying the sunshine so much.