TRAVEL — ENGLAND, AND SCOTLAND
Windsor Castle, Bath, and Stonehenge
A day of going back in time
We took a day tour to see Windsor Castle, Bath, and Stonehenge. They were all in the same direction.
The tour bus (or coach as the Londoners call it) started near Victoria station. We were expected to arrive there at 7:45. So paranoid were we being late that we got there at 7:00 AM. What to do?
We decided to roam around and see if anything was open. We started aimlessly in one direction and soon found ourselves in Victoria Street, lined by boutique stores. What was surprising that every shopfront was decorated with flowers, which I was told later, was to mark the Chelsea Flower festival, a big event in the London calendar. Unfortunately, the flower festival had already finished before we arrived in London, but the street decoration provided a perfect setting for photos.
Victoria Street endured extensive bombing during 1940–1941 and was again damaged in the flying bomb campaign of 1944–1945. However, it was redeveloped in 1851 to replace Westminster’s notorious slum housing acres.
We took some photos and walked back in time to board the coach. The drive to Windsor was beautiful. We had our first glimpse of the countryside, and it didn’t disappoint. Fields…
