Knight's and Royalty

We got up this morning and headed out to Canterbury, when we got there we did a little bit of shopping at Marks & Spencer. The center of town was really quite amazing as it was surrounded by old fort walls that were still higher than all the buildings and it had tower turrets every couple hundred yards! After shopping we walked up to the Cathedral - it was really big, and you could get quite lost in it. The resting place of Thomas Kent and the tomb of the Black Prince were held there, and it was so fun to walk around through all the chambers and various chapels. We left Canterbury at around 1pm and headed to Windsor.

Windsor Castle is ENORMOUS. There is no other word for it, if you haven't seen it, then you can hardly imagine its size, but it truly is just.... enormous. We walked up through the grounds, and made it to the chapel about 15 minutes before the admittance to it closed, and we were so glad we did! It was beautiful, so ornate and traditional. It was crazy to be walking where King's and Queen's have stood. We visited the burial tomb of King George and Elizabeth, and also Princess Anne. It was quite surreal to be staring at them. We continued on out of the tomb and onto the Dolls House display and the State rooms. The dolls house really should not be called a dolls house as it was the size of a small room!!! It had cars parked underneath and all the walls folded down, floors pulled out to unfold into yet more rooms and ceilings were painted with golf leaf, it was quite a sight! The state rooms were all very grand, we only walked through what was a small small portion of the castle, but it was easily the size of two large houses, and each room had so many things to look at that your head was spinning! Outfits, furniture, portraits, swords, shields, tapestries and so on. It was fabulous and by far the best castle we have visited!! We finally walked through the gardens and back down to King Henry's gate - where Geoff got his photo taken by a beefeater (guard). We came to the conclusion that he must be a guard in training as he was a little fidgety and kept running his drills. It was fun to watch though!

Now we are in London, we just had some great Chinese for dinner and we have checked into a very small room in a best western, and feel a little like we took a detour to Hong Kong or something!!!