Nutmeg's Misadventures

Our first visit of day two was at Shakespeare's birthplace. Do you see how cleverly we visit places in chronological order? This is probably my favorite house we visited and it's not hard to see why. It's adorable! All I ever said during this visit was "Awwww . . . . how cute!" The cutest thing was this little covering made of tree branches that you can sit in and hear Shakespeare sonnets quoted to you over a speaker. What a house to grow up in eh? There was even a Shakespeare impersonator strutting around. Wonderful :) Some snapshots of the streets of Stratford. A Christmas store? Yes. Quoth Chandler: Can it BE ANYMORE pink? This was the lovely backyard of New Place, a home Shakespeare inhabited. This last house is called Hall's Croft. Doesn't it sound like some video game or band name? John Hall was Shakespeare's son-in-law. He was a renown doctor in his time and supposedly greatly influenced Shakespeare's characters that were doctors. This was ...

We went as a group to Stratford-upon-Avon right after our walk through Kent country. We would be absent from London for a few days. This was the strictly Shakespeare trip. Only everything Shakespeare we would obsess ourselves with, and absolutely nothing else . . . well maybe a little more of something else every now and again. Here follows day one of our Stratford trip: Here is Coventry Cathedral, the most popular cathedral to visit in England, which is saying something. What you see are the ruins left over from the cathedral. And here you can see the new cathedral built next to the ruins. The reason why this cathedral is so popular is because of the symbolism and powerful story it has. The cathedral was bombed during WWII, leaving only the walls standing and shards of stained-glass. While surveying the damage, a certain bishop had an idea for the cathedral. Instead of doing repair work, he thought the cathedral should stand in its ruins, as a symbol for strength and victory over deat...