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Windsor Castle is an official residence of The
Queen and the largest occupied castle in the world. A Royal home and
fortress for over 900 years, the Castle remains a working palace today.
Unfortunately, we weren’t allowed to take pics inside the caste, but the
State Apartments were amazing, nicely furnished with treasures from the
Royal Collection including paintings by Holbein, Rubens, Van Dyck, fine
tapestries and porcelain, sculpture and armour – plenty of it! And then,
there was Queen Mary's dolls' house… jeez…
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… and all that was
well-protected, of course!
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Across the river Thames, we paid
a visit Eton College - was
founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. Apparently not the cheapest boarding
school around…
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Lunch stop at Lacock National
Trust Village at a country pub. The George Inn
has had a license since 1362…
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Lacocks Abbey, you might
recognize it as it’s been used in the filming of Pride & Prejudice and
in the first two Harry Pothead
movies…
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Stonehenge in the Wiltshire country
side, was built in three phases, starting in 3100 BC... Get that: It’s been
estimated that the three phases of the construction required more than
thirty million hours of labour. Nutters!
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Avebury Stone Circles –
a lesser known megalithic monument which is 16 times larger in area than Stonehenge and nearly 1000 years older!
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Later on, we drove past Silbury
Hill, the largest man made object in prehistoric Europe.
Built 4800 years ago, it took longer to build than Stonehenge
– yet the purpose is still unknown…
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… White Horses galore…
not sure what it is, but a number of White Horses can be found in the
Wiltshire landscape, carved out of the chalk hills… some of them are nearly
300 years old!...
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On our way back to Bath, we visited the
Castle Combe village in the southern part of the Cotswolds.
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Weavers cottages in Castle
Combe…
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Pulteney Bridge
(1769 – 74) in Bath
– lined with shops
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Bath’s abbey in the heart of the old
city
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The Royal Crescent
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The Roman Baths - based around Britain's
only naturally hot spring, the Romans built a magnificent temple and
bathing complex in the 1st century… pretty impressive!
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Regarded as the social heart of Bath for more than two
centuries, the Pump Room is a striking neo-classical salon and is the place
to which hot Spa water is drawn for drinking.
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