Day 41: Bath to Windsor

We had a leisurely start to the day today. After sleeping in till about 8.00am, we had breakfast in the hotel dining room, then packed up and checked out. Our destination for today was Windsor, so we put the address in the GPS and headed off. There was rain on and off for our 2 hour journey – sometimes heavy – intermingled with sunshine. We arrived at our hotel in Windsor – the Harte and Garter Hotel – directly across the road from Windsor Castle.  One of the most historical Windsor hotels, The Harte & Garter is an amalgamation of two 14th century inns; The Garter Inn, named after the Most Noble Order of the Garter, which was founded by King Edward III and The White Harte, named in honour of the Royal Emblem worn by King Richard II. In the late 19th Century they were joined together to form The Harte & Garter Hotel, a building in the Jacobean style, much loved by the Victorians and reflecting the Shakespearean connections. 

This little squirrel was collecting nuts by the road as we left the hotel this morning  - photo for you Ashleigh from Alison

We did get to watch Stonehenge!

High Street Windsor - our hotel is the red brick building

a phone box outside the hotel has some interesting paintings on it!

Once again, Alison and I are sharing a room and Keith is by himself as the two rooms are on different floors! I don’t understand why they can’t put a family booking together! After putting our luggage in our rooms, we had to take the car to a public car park as there is not a car park at the hotel. Then it was time to get some lunch. We headed to a café near the hotel. While having lunch, the rain started and it poured! We waited for a bit of a break, then took our back packs to the room then headed out again. Unfortunately the rain was very persistent, so we came back to our room to relax in the dry! Hopefully it is not raining tomorrow as we plan to go to LEGOLAND!

This evening, we walked down the road to a local Italian restaurant for dinner. Alison must have really enjoyed her dinner as she ate all of her fairly big pizza, then had 3 scoops of ice cream. It was not raining and there were even some stars in the sky, so we hope the rain stays away for tomorrow!