Early to bed, early to rise, makes for bad business sense.

Today was a long day. A very long day. We set off for Warwick castle at 9. I still don't know when we got there, but we explored the castle for a few hours, and it was all pretty cool. The history of Warwick is really colourful and full of a lot of blood and political intrigue. For that reason they also had a dungeon display, which was alright. More cheap thrills than anything substantive. The castle itself was really cool, though, and the view from the top was worth the major climb it took to get there, even though some of the others might disagree. Joe and Bernice certainly didn't enjoy the heights...

From there we were off to Stratford-upon-Avon, which is where essentially everything Shakespeare happened. We toured Anne Hathaway's cottage and Hall's Croft, the former of which was more interesting simply for some of the pictures I got while walking the forest around the cottage. Then we toured the house where Shakespeare was born, which was far more interesting, for me at least.

After a good dinner at a cafe in Stratford, and a general lament of the fact that nearly everything in England closes by 5-6, we went to see The Winter's Tale in an indoor-Globe experiment that wennt pretty well. It's a tourist area..and yet all the restaurants and shops were closing by 5:30, and were all closed by 6. It seems to me that they could make a fair bit more money by having hours better than 10-5. That's not even a full business day! As for the theatre...the seats were more comfortable than the original Globe, and there was no chance of rain or bad weather while at the play. Right now, however, I am very tired, and lectures continue in the morning. Have a lot to do after we get done there, so I'm off to bed.