Warwick Castle & Stratford

Today we had an excursion to the Warwick Castle and Stratford, England. I personally was very dissatisfied with our trip to Warwick Castle. We got to the castle, which was nice from the outside. When we got in I began to notice the age groups present in the castle. The only age groups I noticed were 6-8 year olds on school field trips, and 70-80 year olds in tourists groups. Our group stood out like a sore thumb. I actually did not learn a thing at the castle, and felt it honesty was a waste of time and money. Our time could have been better spent in Stratford for the entire day, or historic London. Warwick castle was so geared toward little kids that a few girls on our trip tried to go to the “Princess castle,” but when they got there they weren’t allowed in because it was for 8 year olds and under…

We then drove to Stratford, which was the pleasant town where Shakespeare lived. It was a really nice town, but we spent such a short time there that I felt like we were missing out on a lot that we could have seen and done. We did, however, visit the church where Shakespeare and his wife, Anne Hathaway, were buried. We also saw the site where his house used to stand. However, it was knocked down a few hundred years later when the owner was so distraught that people were coming into his yard and taking “memorabilia” from his yard (for example, clipping the flowers off his tree and taking wood off his house) because it somehow had some relation to Shakespeare. We also saw the school Shakespeare attended, as well as some of the well-known tudor houses.