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Published: March 31st 2009
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Warwick Castle
Not a very good shot I know but somehow it's the only I got of the whole castle. One of my friends and I signed up for a guided tour to Warwick Castle and Stratford-upon-Avon, the home of William Shakespeare which is about 2 hours north of where I live by bus. It turned out to be a pretty good deal. Warwick Castle was really cool and the surrounding countryside was beautiful. I was very click-happy with my camera that day! So I picked just a few of what I took to put up here.
Warwick Castle is run by the same company that runs Madame Tussauds, which is a very famous wax sculpture museum, so Warwick has several exhibits now that feature rooms replicated to the late 1800's or to medieval times complete with very detailed wax sculptures of historical figures. We only saw one of these exhibits because as we entered the second one, which was the medieval one and began with a rather dim and scary passageway, a very loud recorded voice started speaking to us. It was part of the exhibit but my companion, Shannon, is not too fond of wax, and so just about peed her pants when the sculptures appeared to be speaking to us. After that we decided to go explore the
rose garden instead.
Stratford-upon-Avon was what I expected it to be - cute, small, cheesy, and full of tourists. I enjoyed seeing the building that William Shakespeare inhabited, which to be honest, it's amazing that they are still standing being nearly 500 years old. Unfortunately the theatre of the Royal Shakespeare Company was under construction and covered in scaffolding. Their season starts in about a month so I say they'd better hurry up. There were lots of shops and restaurants named cheeky things like The Food of Love Cafe and As You Like It Pastries. There was a large statue of Falstaff in the town centre and there were cute little two-person rowboats named after Shakespeare's characters for rent on the Avon, a small tributary of the Thames. It was very pretty and I'm glad I saw it but after the novelty wears off, it's really just a little tourist trap.
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