Warwick Castle

We are now headed to London, an amazing city we're excited to tour, but before we arrive in London we stop at the fabulous town of Warwickshire to visit Warwick castle.

We park are car and immediately walk past a small little church with a cemetery.... of course we take a few pictures because we can't help our morbid fascination.  No, really it's not morbid fascination, I think it's just so different from the cemeteries we see in the U.S.  These are so old and seem to have so much history and character.

We eventually arrive at Warwick Castle.

We walk along this very cool pathway that is lush and green and gorgeous to gain access to the castle grounds.

Before entering the castle, we have to do the tourist thing and get a picture of us in the stocks.  Let me tell you, I now have an appreciation for how uncomfortable this form of punishment might be for anyone put in the stocks for more than two minutes.  Very uncomfortable!

So this is the front, outside of the castle, the entrance.

This is the front once inside the castle walls.

Here's some sights of the castle once inside the castle walls.  It's just lovely.......  Don't you just love that word used to describe the sights?  It's a word I heard used many times over by the locals while in England.

A view of the lovely town of Warwickshire from atop the castle.

My goodness..... all these pictures and I haven't even shown you the view inside the castle.  Do you remember my previous post sharing with you our visit to Chatsworth House?  Well, I must say that the rooms inside Chatsworth were absolutely incredible compared to our tour of the rooms inside Warwick Castle.  The castle rooms were worth the tour to give a sense of the history but not as amazing as our tour of Chatsworth.... just saying.

This is one of the beds.... kind of an oddly angled picture so you can't quite tell what you're looking at and doesn't do justice to the majesty of it all.

A chapel within the castle.

Todd had an appreciation for the new, old fire safety equipment within the castle.

And that concludes our tour of Warwick Castle.  Really a treat to visit this beautiful castle in England.  We could have spent a few more hours touring the castle and grounds but we were anxious to get to the bustling city of London.  So many pictures to share!