Weekend in Windsor

One weekend, we woke up early and decided that it would be great to take a random day trip to Windsor. Unfortunately, we decided to clean our apartment first, so we didn't end up leaving until around noon, but i digress. We strolled out the apartment and a whole 6 minutes later were at Paddington, hopping on a train to Windsor! I wasn't quite sure what to expect of the city, but it is a charming city (if you can afford shopping on the high street). We now have annual passes to Windsor castle, so visitors beware!

When you arrive at the castle, the first thing you get is an audio guide and map. I must say that I sport them rather well.

We were there at the same time that the queen was so that was kind of cool. It was getting close to dinner time, and I thought it sort of rude of her not to invite us in for some mince meat pie. Alas. It's okay though because my lady's beauty made up for meeting the queen, although, I think she wishes I was royalty so that we could have loads of fine china.As we were strolling the grounds, we walked past this little sign.

I'm guessing this room is to deter kids might from asking their mums or pops why there was no water in the moat, but instead there was just a flower bed. I can appreciate how that might be confusing to a young boy dreaming of knighthood.

Also, what kind of trip to a castle would it be without a canon picture? So...here you go.

One of these days, I'll have to get a picture of AK blasting a canon, but she's just so attached to her camera!! (It's a Canon...dum dum tssh!)

Because we had a late start, we were getting shooed off the premises when it started getting dusky, but that didn't stop me from taking this dynamite shot!

Okay, so you might not have thought it was that cool, but I like it because it shows the Queen's flag and the lighting (in a non-pro-photographer's eyes) was pretty good. It's the best i can do.

As we were leaving, I noticed that there is actually a person that lives in the castle! How cool. You can see his mailbox, Christmas tree, and the outline of his door. I'm guessing it is the guard's quarters or something like that. Pretty awesome though to live in Windsor castle!

Even though it wasn't, I like to pretend that this was the guy leaving from the private house through his massive gated residence.


After exploring a bit of Windsor, we headed back to the Castle for an Evensong. It was pretty cool, although, there was one guy who was hitting way too high of notes for his size. Kind of awkward, but still very enjoyable.

We headed into town and went out to eat at a place recommended by Rick Steves (who else)! You may ask, how do you know it was recommended by the tour guide great? I'm glad you asked. They had a sign out front that said, "#1 recommended restaurant in Rick Steves". Despite the cheesy advertising, the food was quite delicious. We spoiled ourselves because we can, and got the full gammot: appetizers, wine, fish, soup, salad, and dessert.

We hopped on the train, took a short nap, and walked home from Paddington. What a great day!