Had a nice day out at Windsor with my lovely wife today. Last time we went, we only stayed for a few hours as we were on a whirlwind tour of south west England; that didn't do Windsor Castle justice so we had long planned to visit again. Plus, our tickets to Windsor Castle allows re-admission for up to a year so why waste it!
The train tickets to Windsor from London were very cheap but we had to travel on the less popular trains that stopped all stops between London Waterloo and Windsor & Eton Riverside. However, at 20 quid for the both of us return, we didn't mind the extend 1.5hr journey time.
One disappointing thing about the Windsor Castle re-admission was that they didn't consider us as having pre-paid tickets and so we had to queue with all the other ticket purchasers. Luckily, the queue this time wasn't as crazy as on our first visit and so we got through relatively quickly.
After getting through the entrance, we pretty much went on the same route as we did last time. As it turned out, the only bit we missed from our last visit was the State Apartments. The State Apartments actually turned out to be quite good and I'm glad that we came back! All the weaponries turned wall decoration looked quite impressive while seeing the King and Queen's bedrooms, study, etc was also quite interesting(for some reason, I found this more interesting than the equivalent in France at Versailles - maybe Versailles was too packed with people?). Another thing that I found interesting in the State Apartments was seeing the rooms where the Queen hold functions, such as where she Knights people and where they dine afterwards.
Following Windsor Castle, we went in search of lunch. Irene wanted to have Sunday Roast (beef) for lunch and so we went in search of a nice pub that offered Sunday Roast at a reasonable price. In the end, we settled for Duchess of Cambridge, where Irene had a roast pork (yes, she changed her mind again) while I had a gammon steak with fried eggs and a glass of French Pinot Noir. The food was quite nice, the wine average, and service poor.
After lunch, we headed to Eton College. On the way, we went past some nice old English streets and came across a small shop where I bought a BB gun!
A tour of Eton cost money and so we ended up having a self guided tour around the exterior of that well known college. In the end, we found ourselves at a park where we strolled around for a while before heading back to town to do some window shopping. Then shortly afterwards, we headed to the train station for a trip back home.
With that, our nice, sunny and (relatively) warm Sunday at Windsor came to an end.
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