The Old and the Ancient - Saturday

After yesterday (and last night's) rain, we awoke at our fairly posh B&B to our first cloudless sky and as close to  "No Rain" forecast as I've seen. Looking good!!

We'd stayed in Salisbury so we could get an early start to Stonehenge to avoid the weekend rush.  I'm glad we did as this was the traffic not long after we arrived.

Stonehenge is pretty interesting, not least the why and how of it all. Unfortunately while sound speculation has been made, we don't really know. Still pretty impressive though (although it didn't make me want rush out for Druid solstice sacrifices).

From Stonehenge we hotfooted it to Windsor to visit the Castle.

We found a car park and were just about to get out when, guess what? The heavens opened. Fortunately it only poured for about 10 minutes, so we waited it out.

Then I had to pay for parking (note £1 is close enough to $2) so our 3 hour car park cost nearly $24!! This is on top of $52 each for the castle.

After a quick pepperoni pizza for lunch we headed into the Castle. 

Interesting to see how the other half lives!

It has been impressively restored since the 1992 (yes that long ago) fire and impeccably maintained - all paid for by my ticket And donations. The most interesting part is the State Apartments and St Georges Chapel (where QEII is buried) but no photos permitted.

Then on into London ( well, burbs actually) for a home-cooked chicken and salad dinner.