DAY 5 of UK roadtrip - Warwick Castle

By far not the cheapest attraction, but definitely worth the money. Not only is there plenty to do outside, but you're allowed to take pictures inside and in a lot of cases, touch stuff as well *g* - also their wax manaquins are scarily lifelike in some cases.

We left Redditch to go to Warwick where the sad-nag (sat nav) managed to get us well to Warwick but then flaked out and had us driving around and around and around and ... yeah XD - we did manage to find the car park eventually and after bitching a bit about the 4 quid parking fee, we went up to the castle (that's a hell of a walk, btw) and it was hot - and getting hotter :(

The castle itself was brilliant - the only downside was the amount of loud Italian school kids - not to mention I think there was a Spanish school class there as well, but they weren't as loud as the Italians. We wandered about, up and down stairs and ended up outside for the Flight of Eagles display which was absolutely brilliant. (There were two American bald eagles, one grey eagle buzzard and a white tailed sea eagle.

I think we need to keep Nicci in the shade more, because she was flagging something horrible when we got out of the castle and I took over driving - thankfully Oxford isn't too far away from Warwick, because it was a hell of a hot drive.

We all conked out when we got here and when we went out to dinner, it was a bit hard getting Nicci up firing on more than one cylinder. Thankfully a fantabulous Indian meal at the Chutney's helped. NomNomNomNOM. Had Chicken korma and it's possible one of the best I've ever had.

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DAY 5 of UK roadtrip - Warwick Castle

By far not the cheapest attraction, but definitely worth the money. Not only is there plenty to do outside, but you're allowed to take pictures inside and in a lot of cases, touch stuff as well *g* - also their wax manaquins are scarily lifelike in some cases.

We left Redditch to go to Warwick where the sad-nag (sat nav) managed to get us well to Warwick but then flaked out and had us driving around and around and around and ... yeah XD - we did manage to find the car park eventually and after bitching a bit about the 4 quid parking fee, we went up to the castle (that's a hell of a walk, btw) and it was hot - and getting hotter :(

The castle itself was brilliant - the only downside was the amount of loud Italian school kids - not to mention I think there was a Spanish school class there as well, but they weren't as loud as the Italians. We wandered about, up and down stairs and ended up outside for the Flight of Eagles display which was absolutely brilliant. (There were two American bald eagles, one grey eagle buzzard and a white tailed sea eagle.

I think we need to keep Nicci in the shade more, because she was flagging something horrible when we got out of the castle and I took over driving - thankfully Oxford isn't too far away from Warwick, because it was a hell of a hot drive.

We all conked out when we got here and when we went out to dinner, it was a bit hard getting Nicci up firing on more than one cylinder. Thankfully a fantabulous Indian meal at the Chutney's helped. NomNomNomNOM. Had Chicken korma and it's possible one of the best I've ever had.

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UK roadtrip - day 6 - York

Had another ridiculously hot day today.

We went into York via the park and ride and tried to find a place to have breakfast. Question? Don't Oxford people eat breakies? Even the places that sprouted 'breakfast' signs didn't serve breakfast today O.o

Neil went off to terrorize the city's bookstores and pay a visit to the Evil Empire (aka Games Workshop) while Nicci and I trudged off to find the Museum of Natural History - which turned out to be brilliant but damn! It was hard on the feet - even the Pitt collection - which didn't open till noon, couln't get me to agree to another hour (seriously!), even though it was damned interesting.

We went back in to meet with Neil, had lunch at the Red Lion and then set off to meet with sazandra - Neil begged off the girly time and hunted down some ice for the cooler instead. Us three first went to Coffee Republic for a coffee and coke and then went hunting for a fan (not a FAN fan, but a fan to cool us down with). Having obtained that and aftersun lotion, we said our byes to sazandra (hope to see you again, hon, it was GREAT seeing you in person ^_^ (and good luck on the new boss-man)

We're now chilling with cider, beer and photoshop *g* - tomorrow we're off to Cardiff ^_^

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UK roadtrip - day 6 - York

Had another ridiculously hot day today.

We went into York Oxford via the park and ride and tried to find a place to have breakfast. Question? Don't Oxford people eat breakies? Even the places that sprouted 'breakfast' signs didn't serve breakfast today O.o

Neil went off to terrorize the city's bookstores and pay a visit to the Evil Empire (aka Games Workshop) while Nicci and I trudged off to find the Museum of Natural History - which turned out to be brilliant but damn! It was hard on the feet - even the Pitt collection - which didn't open till noon, couln't get me to agree to another hour (seriously!), even though it was damned interesting.

We went back in to meet with Neil, had lunch at the Red Lion and then set off to meet with sazandra - Neil begged off the girly time and hunted down some ice for the cooler instead. Us three first went to Coffee Republic for a coffee and coke and then went hunting for a fan (not a FAN fan, but a fan to cool us down with). Having obtained that and aftersun lotion, we said our byes to sazandra (hope to see you again, hon, it was GREAT seeing you in person ^_^ (and good luck on the new boss-man)

We're now chilling with cider, beer and photoshop *g* - tomorrow we're off to Cardiff ^_^

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