Wonderful Warwick

Even though we were feeling like shit (read hungover thanks to Cliff and Chev) we decided that our plans to go to Warwick were still a wonderful idea. Hahahahahahaha!

Warwick is about 2 hours train ride from London (and 6 hours return - don't ask!) and boasts Britian's greatest medieval castle. The castle is funded (owned) by Madame Tussauds, and is one of the most preserved and interesting castles that we have seen. They did archery and crossbow demonstrations as well as siege weapon demonstrations where they launched projectiles (Rob was hoping for dwarves and would have settled for Leprechauns but was disappointed). The siege weapon, a tebuchet (a huge catapult), was actually the world's largest (standing at 18m tall) and was the most formidable of the siege machines.

We also visited St Mary's Cathedral (finest medieval chapel in England) were we climbed another spiral staircase to the top of the tower. Another fascinating feature was that the chapel housed really dead - I mean really old - dead people (it was built in the 15th century to house the tomb of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick) .....really old!!!!