Crewe and the English Countryside

Ok, so we haven't had internet access in London, so thats my excuse this time. After Dublin we took a huge ferry (the size of a large cruise ship) to Wales.  It was a quick trip, but we were all so tired because of an early morning that we slept the whole way there.  The day was a lot of traveling to get through Wales, but along the way we stopped in  Conway, Wales, which is right on bay with an amazing medieval castle.    The castle has amazing views and the outside shell of the castle is very well preserved.

Conway Castle

I also had Mackerel Rarebit for the first time at the museum Cafe.  It was pretty fishy, but was a nice authentic Welsh meal.  We immediately started learning some typical British phrases and words that have different meanings.  For example, with salad means with lettuce. Weird.

That was all we did in Wales, and we drove the rest of the way to Crewe in the evening, where we had dinner at the Hotel, which was chili on top of rice.  Lets just say Steak-n-Shake is better. We had an amazing chocolate fudge cake for dessert though.

Next day we packed up to head to London with a few important stops along the way.  I had an eventful morning, spraining my ankle! No worries though it happens to me all the time, and it was a minor sprain!  We went to another, less cool castle in Warwick (pr. Warick), England.  It was a medieval tourist trap with jousting reenactments and bad wax museums.  There were a lot of stairs to go up and down, and unfortunately I think we did everyone of them!  We would have probably thought the castle was amazing if we had not seen Conway the day before.

From Warwick, we went to Anne Hathaway's house. She was William Shakespeare's wife, and she lived in an old victorian home with a thatched roof.  We only took pictures and then headed to Stratford upon Avon, the birthplace of Shakespeare.  Unfortunately his childhood home is another tourist trap, and they regrettably have no original furniture or furnishings that were actually in the house when he lived there.  Instead they say things like, it most likely looked like this and we think this is what the house would have been like.  The trip was rescued by great food from the Food of Love restaurant.  Chicken and Mayonnaise with Salad.  Can you guess what that would be in the U.S.?

Shakespeare's crib

Well, we got the heck out of there and finished the day in London!  Staying in Greenwich, which I don't recommend if you want to be close to the city, we have to take a long Tube ride into the city.  We got dinner in Leicester (pr. Lester) Square, in Chinatown.  The fun in London is just beginning!