Steve booked a "Zip' car from midday - so we had time to do the Friday blog whilst still humming the great songs from "Matilda".
Windsor is not far from Chiswick so we were soon roaming the historical and famous village/city - among the myriad of tourists and looking for an English style pub for a traditional lunch (the quid pro quo - our shout, S & E are paying for the car).
We settled into the "Duchess of Cambridge" pub, very nice too! We picked a busy scene opposite the castle - lunch took a while. Our main target for the day was to visit the castle - there's much to see: St George's Chapel, 22 State Rooms, the surrounds and gardens just to mention a few things. We did the Chapel visit and were interested to hear that Evensong was at 5-15pm. We agreed this was do-able, but Steve would have to extend the car time - so easy via his Iphone - what a wiz!
We visited some of the State rooms - a bit rushed and perhaps they are better seen with the use of the audio tour ... next time.
We attended the beautiful regular Saturday Evensong with Choir Chapel Service and our "tech" guides advised us that it was already Sunday in Australia. This was good news given we will be in the air for much of the next 16-18 hours as we head to Hong Kong via Dubai, with a couple of hours in the UAE.
Steve and Eryn dropped us at Heathrow about 7 pm - we were sad to leave them they have been great hosts and we know we will miss them and their lively company - both in coming days and until we catch up with them again.
They are soon to relocate to an apartment closer to central London in the suburb of Hammersmith.
For Ray & Glenys we look forward to seeing Hong Kong for the first time and enjoying the last days of our leave.
Windsor is not far from Chiswick so we were soon roaming the historical and famous village/city - among the myriad of tourists and looking for an English style pub for a traditional lunch (the quid pro quo - our shout, S & E are paying for the car).
We settled into the "Duchess of Cambridge" pub, very nice too! We picked a busy scene opposite the castle - lunch took a while. Our main target for the day was to visit the castle - there's much to see: St George's Chapel, 22 State Rooms, the surrounds and gardens just to mention a few things. We did the Chapel visit and were interested to hear that Evensong was at 5-15pm. We agreed this was do-able, but Steve would have to extend the car time - so easy via his Iphone - what a wiz!
We visited some of the State rooms - a bit rushed and perhaps they are better seen with the use of the audio tour ... next time.
We attended the beautiful regular Saturday Evensong with Choir Chapel Service and our "tech" guides advised us that it was already Sunday in Australia. This was good news given we will be in the air for much of the next 16-18 hours as we head to Hong Kong via Dubai, with a couple of hours in the UAE.
Steve and Eryn dropped us at Heathrow about 7 pm - we were sad to leave them they have been great hosts and we know we will miss them and their lively company - both in coming days and until we catch up with them again.
They are soon to relocate to an apartment closer to central London in the suburb of Hammersmith.
For Ray & Glenys we look forward to seeing Hong Kong for the first time and enjoying the last days of our leave.
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