Julia happened to read the A to Z Mystery: The Castle Crime, before we announced our vacation destinations, and she viewed the places the kids in the book visited as a checklist for our trip. Therefore we HAD to go to Windsor Castle, and I’m glad we did since it was one of my favorite parts of our trip. Julia asked if we’d run into the queen like the kids in the book. Sorry, Julia, no.
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| Julia jumps down our apartment stairs. (Yes, those are pom poms in her skirt.) |
By order of the queen (seriously! I inquired!) no pictures are allowed inside the castle. Methinks the queen wants us to buy the souvenir books. So you’ll have to take my word (and the pictures I found online) that the state apartments were amazing. There are paintings by Rubens and Van Eyck that no one even notices because of all the awesome stuff in the room: so many weapons that they’re displayed in patterns and shapes, and of course more of King Henry VIII’s armor. There are halls of heraldic banners, and Queen Mary’s Dollhouse, an intricate, several story dollhouse that fascinated the kids.
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| Windsor Castle |
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| Why have guns unless you can display them in patterns and shapes on the wall? |
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| In front of Windsor Castle's Round Tower. |
We end up having four problems with trains getting back (among other things whole systems
are down and a tree falls on our alternate route), so it’s good that we stick around to eat
dinner. We sup across the Thames in Eton, and finish with yet another sticky toffee pudding.
On trains and subways I have been teaching the kids the hand slap I learned in the
mid-1980s to the McDonald’s jingle of the day, “Big Mac, Filet of Fish…” and Julia in
particular is enthralled. If you start hearing it at school, you know whom to blame.
are down and a tree falls on our alternate route), so it’s good that we stick around to eat
dinner. We sup across the Thames in Eton, and finish with yet another sticky toffee pudding.
On trains and subways I have been teaching the kids the hand slap I learned in the
mid-1980s to the McDonald’s jingle of the day, “Big Mac, Filet of Fish…” and Julia in
particular is enthralled. If you start hearing it at school, you know whom to blame.
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| The Thames as it flows between the towns of Windsor and Eton. We would have liked to take a boat out on the river, but discovered them too late. |
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| Julia attacks her third sticky toffee pudding of the trip. |
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| James has fun climbing on the London subway and Mommy's lap. |
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| Sorry, America, for reintroducing "Big Mac, Filet of Fish" to schools this fall. |
Julia’s favorite thing of the day: Jumping off stairs at Windsor Castle, and the china room at Windsor Castle
James’s favorite: Queen Mary’s doll house at Windsor Castle
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