A Bit of A Good Day Out

What a fantastic day out we had at Warwick Castle on Friday.

Good old Sainsburys had provided us with two for one tickets, so the children got in free.  Having said that some of the side attractions were on the expensive side so slightly "rip offy".

I had a lovely chat with the Queen.  I commented on her beautiful flower arrangement.  I did  point out that I didn’t like red flowers, and asked if she would get them changed.  Think I overstepped the mark there, she didn’t seem too impressed.

They had loads of activities during the day.  Here are some highlights.

Jousting.  I have to say that although we were supposed to be cheering on the goodies, the baddy definitely got our vote (well the one in the middle).  Much better looking and sis and I agreed we would happily have been the fair maidens!

You can imagine in days of olde the knights being our equivalent of rock stars.  There was a lot of testosterone flying about that jousting pitch and it was very exciting.

Falconry. Excuse the pun here but we had a birds eye view of this due to us setting up our own private picnic area a few feet away from the ring.

This was Paul the Falconer.  He was very entertaining and clearly adored working with the birds.  He chatted with us several times during the day.  Every time we sat down for our picnic he seemed to appear and thought we’d never left our blanket!

Trebuchet.   Quite simply an amazing piece of engineering, but also a deadly weapon as explained to us by the Earl of Warwick!

More later . . . . . .

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