Saturday, 26 May 2012

Stratford Upon Avon

Visit to Stratford Upon Avon

Lori and I stopped by Stratford upon Avon on the way down to Oxford during Easter break.  Stratford Upon Avon is the birthplace of William Shakespeare.  We also visisted Anne Hathaways cottage, the family house of the wife of WS.  


The childhood home of Anne Hathaway (WS's wife)  built in the 1400's

Family Kitchen


Clothes Washing - I'm not sure things have improved very much in this area here over the centuries

Portrait of WS, circa 1600

Wallpaper in the Shakespeare house.. some fashions are timeless 


As well as the bedroom décor


"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she".

(Lori looking out the window of WS's childhood home)


In the Shakespeare gardens

Shakespeare's House from the street

Walk along the river Avon

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