Today we visited the home and birthplace of the worlds most famous playwright! thats right William Shakespeare himself!! we stood in the very room where he was born and walked on the same floor that he once had!
We went to Stratford on Avon today.! It was pouring with rain and freezing cold but it was a great day out! Having decided to go today on our day off a wee bit of nasty weather wasnt going to stop us.
There are three Shakespeare trust houses in the town which we visited all of them, the first is The Birthplace. This was the house where Shakespeares parents lived and he grew up. They had costumed guides on each room telling you about the life and times which was quite interesting, including John Shakespeare (williams father) telling us all about his house!!!
Along the main street there was a Christmas shop!!! with so many christmas decorations it was awesome, it even smelled of christmas. i reckon it would drive you insane to work there tho with the music all the time!!!
We had lunch at a quite quaint tea rooms where the lady was really chatty and friendly and all the locals were popping in and out to exchange news and gossip with her.
after lunch we made our way to New Place which is were William Shakespreare and Anne Hathaway lived for the last years of their marriage untill his death. All the buildings (in fact most of the buildings in the centre of Stratford) were in the black and white tudor timber style which was really cool! all of the houses have really amazing gardens too so it was a shame we were visiting in the rain and winter.
The last house was Hall's Croft which is where Shakespeares daughter lived with her husband who was a doctor in the town. there were some interesting displays of doctors equipment and again a really informative guide who explained the history and stories of the house to us.
We then made our way to the church of the holy trinity other wise known as shakespeares church to see his grave and had a look around what is a really lovely church.
We walked along th banks of the flooded River Avon past the Royal Shakespeare Theatre company theatres. Romeo and Juliet is playing next montha nd January so we might come back for a performance sometime.
By this time we were freezing and a bit damp so we made our way back to the station and home again.
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Good to see you guys still seeing the sights despite the COLD weather. I wont rub in about our HOT days inbetween blustery southerlies. Jez, do you read your emails? Missing you, and these blogs are great, notice Gem doing most of the writing. Like father like son.
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