Wonderful Warwick!

Although we spent mist of the day yesterday in Warwick Castle, the kids enjoyed exploring it so much, we came back for a few hours. 

We had time to climb each tower and walk the ramparts as well as wanderthe expansive   gardens. I went to the Royal afternoon tea ( set in 1898) which was simply charming... I don't think I could have lived back then though..

The views from the battlements were amazing.- but I sure felt those 550 stairs.

Wandering the countryside though, makes me realise how much Age and I saw and did when we were here.

Its just a matter now to revisit spots the kids will connect with at their appropriate ages. Stratford -on -Avon did nothing for them..

Druids Temple

Follys were all the rage in the 1800s. It seems that there was a shortage of work for townsfolk, so the local lord hired a team if workers to construct a stonehenge type temple. It was constructed in the 1820s and became quite the attraction piece. Its spectacular and little wonder it still attracts all sorts of interest.

There is a cave at the end with luminescent moss.. Very eerie and quite cool.

Doomsday Church at Masham

Quaint old church in the Norman style just beside where we stayed last night.

Its mentioned in the doomsday book of 1066, but is reputed to have been built in the 8 th century. It still blows my mind thinking about wandering round sites as old as this.

 

Thank goodness for digital photography... I'd have reels and reels of images of old gravestones and creeping ivy.. Well.. I have a photo log full of them..