Our April Trips

This is the front of Winchester Cathedral.  All the cathedrals we have visited have been built in the shape of a cross.

This is the grave marker for the most famous person buried here - Jane Austen.  If you didn't like her books you can just walk on the marker - it's in the floor.

Our next outing was to Windsor castle, where the queen of England lives (sometimes).  If the flag is flying, that means she is in residence.  Because it was raining, the crowds were a lot smaller, which was nice.  We didn't happen to run into the queen while we were there.

This is another view of Windsor Castle from the outside.  It is a pretty big place.

After a hard day of wandering through the castle in the rain, we stopped at Pizza Hut.  You can just see the bottom of the castle wall out the window.

This week we made it to Bodiam castle.  It looks great from the outside with the moat and everything, but there is not much on the inside.  You can, however climb up to the top of some of the towers.

After we saw this castle, we went to a town called Rye.  It had cobblestone streets and little shops and was very quaint.  We ate at a place called George's in Rye.  Peggy ordered a pint of prawns and when they came, they were in a pint jar and they still had the heads on them.  But she learned quickly how to rip their little heads off and eat them (not the heads).  Rye is near the English Channel.