Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Chester and Stratford

We woke up to a rainy morning in Lancaster and we left straight after a quick stop at Waterstones as I was determined to find a book in English before we left to go to Italy. I ended up finding my book in the next town we visited which was Chester. Chester was a cute place near Wales. Here we just went on the classic red hop on hop off sightseeing bus after we watched the old Chester Bell ringer make some jokes and greet everyone around him.
After Chester we went to another castle this was was quite cool because you could go around the wall up top and into the towers.
It was beginning to get dark to we continued to drive to our next B&B which was in Stratford upon Avon. We could have never have guessed that we were about to meet possibly the best B&B host ever, Pascal! He was an old man with a very excited voice and who really just wanted the best for his guests. We arrived and he basically told us that we were going to the Shakespeare play that would start in 30 minutes. He told mum where to put the car while he went crazy pointing out on a map where the theatre and places to were. All I wanted was the wifi password. We quickly walked to the theatre and got standing tickets for Cleopatra and Antony. It was one of the better Shakespeare performances I've seen and much better than that Macbeth one.

The next day the old man talked to us all while having breakfast and we all introduced him to Twilight. Afterwards we walked through a field and some weird back trials to Anne Hathaway's house. It was really nice actually and you could tell the ladies who worked there were true Anne Hathaway and Shakespeare fans.
We then walked around the town. Sophie and I trailed after mum who was walking extremly fast on this day to see everything included shake spears grave. We saw so many graves on this trip. We left the town to go Bath which was where we spent the last night of our road trip. From my window I could see the sunset and a small part of the town which looked so nice with the lights and all. The next day we would meet Michelle again and end our trip.

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