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Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Windsor Revisited 2022

Windsor Revisited – Day Two

For breakfast I chose the continental option. It was every bit as good as I remembered it from last time. Comfortably replete, we walked through Windsor to the Cambridge Gates (The Windsor Great Park entrance to the castle).

The weather was perfect for the the walk; it was so warm we didn’t need to wear coats. [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 17th 2022

Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Windsor 2022

Windsor – Day Four

Whilst enjoying a leisurely breakfast, we were treated to another early morning river view. After breakfast, we stopped at the hotel reception area to request replacements for the essential items that had gone missing when our room was serviced the previous day.

Supplies suitably replenished, we returned to our room and gathered what we needed for [...]

8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 20th 2022

Filed under Holidays, Windsor 2022

Windsor – Day Two

After a good night’s sleep we were treated to a river view in the hotel’s dining room whilst we enjoyed our breakfast selected from the hot and cold options on offer. We then walked over the Windsor bridge into Eton looking for suitable places for evening meals.

Our recce complete, we made our way to Windsor [...]

4 Comments CherryPie on Jun 15th 2022

Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Hurley 2017

Hurley – Day One

We picked up my Mum and set off on our journey to Windsor which took rather longer than expected due to the volume of traffic on the bank holiday weekend. Whilst we were driving around Windsor struggling to find a place to park we spotted my nephew and his lady friend outside Windsor Castle and [...]

12 Comments CherryPie on Aug 30th 2017