Archive for the tag 'Warwickshire'
Filed under Holidays, Stratford-upon-Avon 2022
Night-Time Illuminations
14 Comments CherryPie on Dec 22nd 2022
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Stratford-upon-Avon 2022
God Save The King 1769
The words ‘God Save The King 1769 are embellished on the side of Stratford-upon-Avon Town Hall.
The Hall was built in the reign of Charles I and throughout its chequered history has seen calamitous events including being extensively damaged from a gunpowder explosion in 1643. Just over a century later the Hall was actually pulled down [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Dec 21st 2022
We navigated our way around the breakfast menu which somehow didn’t quite work, for example there was no bread to accompany the meat and cheese that are part of the continental breakfast.
After breakfast, our first destination was Shakespeare’s birthplace where the room guides’ explanations and stories added to the experience. We then visited the nearby [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 11th 2022
We awoke to glorious sunshine and were given a window seat for breakfast which allowed us to to make the most of it. The breakfast was excellent although the portions were enormous. My plate of scrambled egg and salmon could have fed two people.
Straight after breakfast we headed into town to pick up some bottled [...]
13 Comments CherryPie on Dec 6th 2022
We set off a little later than planned because Mr C had been away in London at a conference and needed to pack.
With lunch in mind, just outside of Stratford, we noticed a Dobbies garden centre. We negotiated around a car crash that was outside the garden centre but, on arrival at the cafe we [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 5th 2022
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Stratford-upon-Avon 2022
The Wanderer Returns
I have returned from a weekend break in Stratford-on-Avon where the weather was unseasonably kind to us. I am now juggling organising my photos around Christmas preparations.
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 1st 2022
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, London 2014
Kenilworth Castle
Kenilworth Castle stands on a low hill that was once at the heart of a 1,600 hectare (4,000 acre) park and surrounded by a vast man-made lake. The spectacular ruins, built mostly from the local red sandstone, reveal much of its medieval and Tudor past.
The castle is approached from the south by a causeway that [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2017
