Stratford Moat House Hotel Stratford-upon-Avon

Another beautiful day--our luck is holding out!

We drove through Robin Hood territory--Sherwood Forest--and learned that he was really a myth :-(

Saw the Coventry Cathedral--a modern cathedral which was rebuilt after the original was destroyed during the WWII bombing blitz.


Then came Shakespeare world. We saw Anne Hathaway's cottage. Anne was his wife--in those days the wives did not take the husband's name, just his religion. It is a very beautiful town--lots of...

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Hope you are all having a great time back at home! We have been traveling all over, and we are getting tired! Lacey and Cathy are definitely sore from all the walking and going up and down stairs they have been doing. We have been having a great time. We have made it to Stratford-upon-Avon. It is the birthplace of WIlliam Shakespeare, it is also where he retired to, We are planning on going to see all of those sites tomorrow. Everything was closing when we got in yest...

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Hope you are all having as much fun at home as we have been having here. We made it to my favorite part of the whole trip today! I am not joking, I got to see where William Shakespeare was born, where he died, where his wife lived, and where his mother lived. We even toured the house his daughter lived in. It was absolutely incredible walking on floors that he once walked on. We even got to see a performance of the monologue Antony gives in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, hence t...