We’d planned to go to Stonehenge and Avebury today, as it appeared on the map to be closer to Winchester than London. I looked up tickets and could not find an easy way to get to both places, so we decided to put that off until next week when we can easily do a day trip.
We decided that we’d finish up the sites in Winchester that we did not have time to do before. 1st up was a visit and tour of the Great Hall. We were in there for the trial but we didn’t have a chance to really see the hall.
I saw that there was a tour at 11am. We left quickly, caught the 10:23 bus then walked up the hill to the hall. The hall is thru the downtown area then up a hill about a 15 min walk. We arrived in time for the tour. It is always amazing to me to walk through something from so long ago.
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| Wall looking to the Round Table. Brown trap door for prisoners on the floor is visible. Used in "Wolf Hall" |
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| The Round Table |
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| The original wall and door |
We wanted to do the walking tour out of the Visitor’s Center at 2:30 and thought we’d stop for some hot tea to warm up. It was really cold and raining. As we were walking we saw a tea shop and I thought it might be fun to take some home. There were lots of steaming hot samples of tea so we sampled all available. We even bought some.
There was a steady rain when we got down to the Visitor’s Center but we signed up for the 1-1/2 hour walk. Official guide-led city walks are usually a good way to learn about the city and this was no different. The guide showed us among other things: walls, more than 1,000 years old and an entry used by King Charles the 2nd to get to his mistress when staying in the city. A quote from the mistress that Dale and I love “Pray good people be civil, I am the Protestant whore” https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Nell-Gwyn-Gwynne/
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| The house where Queen Emma lived. She died in 1036 |
After another steaming hot meat pie, we were tired, picked up another bottle of wine and went back to our hotel.
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