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Sometime in mid-May, I went to Windsor castle with 2 of the girls from Penn for my very last free excursion. There aren't many pictures, but I thought I would share them.
Windsor is about 20 miles from London, and is famous not only for being the oldest constantly inhabited castle in the UK, but also for the school of Eton which is just down the road. This is a boarding school for the sons of the British Aristocracy--including Princes William and Harry, and we did see a few of them wandering about in their school uniforms.
There's a nice town that was probably built up because of all the people that worked at/for the castle/royals. Now it seems to be more like an outdoor mall, totally commercialized. But we did get Cornish Pasties, and that was the first time I've tried those. They're basically like hot pockets. I had a yummy veggie and mushroom one, and then a 5 or 6 year old kid tried to take it away. They're really filling, and if the kid had stuck around I probably would have given him the last half of it. It was good though. Anyway, pictures:
I couldn't get a picture of the whole thing, so I swiped one from the internet:
And while I'm stealing internet images for my own use, here's another one:
This is Queen Mary's doll house, which is an exact replica of a ~1920s era house, and the whole thing is about 5 feet tall. I don't think anyone ever played with this doll house, since Queen Mary was like 55 years old when it was made, but it was pretty nonetheless.
We wandered around the castle, which was filled with armor, arms, old furniture, and lots of stuff I saw at other royal places. All these things are the same, it seems.
From then we wandered outside to look around the grounds, which were the only parts that really thrilled me. The queen wasn't there when we went, but I imagine she sometimes takes tea in this little area.
That was it for Windsor, so we wandered down to the Eton area, where the Princes went to school and everyone that graduates goes to Oxford.
This is the uniform they wear every day. How pretentious can you get? We actually saw a few of these poor kids walking around like this. Man would I shoot myself. The area around Eton was a little cooler, with quirky antique stores and whatnot. Most of it was closed when we went, because everywhere I go things are closed for reasons unknown. But we looked in windows, enjoyed the good weather, and then headed back toward the train station, stopping for some Ben & Jerry's on the way. It was a good day, nothing spectacular, but beautiful weather.
Windsor is about 20 miles from London, and is famous not only for being the oldest constantly inhabited castle in the UK, but also for the school of Eton which is just down the road. This is a boarding school for the sons of the British Aristocracy--including Princes William and Harry, and we did see a few of them wandering about in their school uniforms.
There's a nice town that was probably built up because of all the people that worked at/for the castle/royals. Now it seems to be more like an outdoor mall, totally commercialized. But we did get Cornish Pasties, and that was the first time I've tried those. They're basically like hot pockets. I had a yummy veggie and mushroom one, and then a 5 or 6 year old kid tried to take it away. They're really filling, and if the kid had stuck around I probably would have given him the last half of it. It was good though. Anyway, pictures:
I couldn't get a picture of the whole thing, so I swiped one from the internet:
And while I'm stealing internet images for my own use, here's another one:
This is Queen Mary's doll house, which is an exact replica of a ~1920s era house, and the whole thing is about 5 feet tall. I don't think anyone ever played with this doll house, since Queen Mary was like 55 years old when it was made, but it was pretty nonetheless.
We wandered around the castle, which was filled with armor, arms, old furniture, and lots of stuff I saw at other royal places. All these things are the same, it seems.
From then we wandered outside to look around the grounds, which were the only parts that really thrilled me. The queen wasn't there when we went, but I imagine she sometimes takes tea in this little area.
That was it for Windsor, so we wandered down to the Eton area, where the Princes went to school and everyone that graduates goes to Oxford.
This is the uniform they wear every day. How pretentious can you get? We actually saw a few of these poor kids walking around like this. Man would I shoot myself. The area around Eton was a little cooler, with quirky antique stores and whatnot. Most of it was closed when we went, because everywhere I go things are closed for reasons unknown. But we looked in windows, enjoyed the good weather, and then headed back toward the train station, stopping for some Ben & Jerry's on the way. It was a good day, nothing spectacular, but beautiful weather.