Before I go into Windsor, here is the link again to that Facebook album: http://wlu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2012634&l=8e80e&id=19000059 I just added pictures from Oxford and Blenheim Palace. Sadly, that album is now full...so I created a "London, Part II" for the Windsor pictures, and whatever comes next. :) That link: http://wlu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2012659&l=62f42&id=19000059
Jack, Lindsey, and I left Princes Risborough around 9:30 to drive to Windsor, about an hour away. I like driving through the English countryside. :) It's really pretty. On the way we got to see part of a cricket match and lots of cars headed into the town for the Royal Horse Show. Pretty cool. I really liked Windsor because it actually looks like a castle. Between Spain and Germany, I've seen lots of castles, but most of them tend to look like really ornate palaces. Windsor looks exactly like how I picture a castle. :)
We got there just in time to watch the changing of the guard, though there were a lot of people watching with us so it was tough to get a good view. After that we went inside the cathedral for a while and saw the tombs for George VI and the Queen Mother, Henry VIII and his last wife whose name I forget, and some of the other monarchs/members of the royal family as well. :) I forget which ones at the moment. It is a very beautiful cathedral, parts of which date back to the early 13th century.
After that we walked through the royal apartments. We saw lots of beautiful drawings, paintings, chinaware, furniture, ceilings, swords, armor, and guns. It was definitely one of the bigger castles/palaces that I've been to. Sadly, again, no pictures of the inside were allowed. We went into the town for some lunch after we toured the castle and then we drove back to the house, just in time for the buckets of rain to start plumetting down again.
Jack has gone to pick up his sister-in-law, Donna, who is also spending the next few days with them. I'm sitting here resting a bit until they get back. We're going to an Indian restaurant tonight, and then afterwards I'm going out with Nicola and her friends to celebrate a friend's 18th birthday, a big deal here because that is when they're allowed to drink. By the way, I asked Lindsey...their dogs are English Golden Retrievers. :)
1 comment:
Abri,
I love your Oxford pictures! I think you're right about the corridor and, if you look carefully, in your picture of Christ Church Cathedral, you'll see the windows of the courtyard used in CoS when the trio is talking about Hagrid and he asks them about "something hairy". Also the same windows were the background for the slug scene, the scene where Harry realizes the monster is a basiliks [I think the inside of the windows was used here] and in GoF the scenes leading up to the ferret scene. And yes, those are definitely the stairs leading to the Great Hall! [I think I've seen these movies too many times!]
As for your other pictures, I think I like your artistic tries the best and have been trying to guess what the white flowers are. The gardens are gorgeous--you certainly picked the right time of year to visit London for flowers! Finally, I love picture 53, the one of the Blenheim Palace lake. I've always pictured the Hogwarts lake like this one instead of the Scottish monstrosity they have in the films. This one's definitely more conducive to strolling around than that one.
Thanks for putting up the HP pictures,
Arnel
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