Windsor Castle - a great place for children!

After a day spent visiting some of Katherine's family in Oxford, today - Auntie Anne's last full day in England with us - was spent at Windsor Castle.  We started with our favourite breakfast - proper porridge at Pret a Manger.  It is the best porridge ever.  We suspect it is made with larger amounts of cream and butter, but porridge is healthy, right?  Even if you top it with jam and honey?  It's porridge!

The mark on Miss R's eye is from an unfortunate Bouncy Castle accident yesterday...

Seriously, if you are ever in England, find a Pret a Manger in the morning and try the "Proper Porridge".

Then we spent 2 hours in the rain standing in line to go and see the castle. Well, we took turns going and shopping a bit while someone held our place in "the queue".  Rhubarb and custard, apple and blackberry and pear drop sweeties were bought, clothes for baby Camreigh and Neal's Yard products are all in our bags now.

Then we went into the castle.  The girls were really interested in the video/audio guides.  Rachel managed to change her to be entirely in Chinese - and none of the adults could figure out how to change it back to English.  Didn't seem to bother Rachel, though - she tucked it under her arm and brought it out on a regular basis to hear all about the castle.  In Chinese. 


We arrived just in time to see the new guards arriving for the Changing of the Guard. 


A chance for little ones to dress up as princesses (plus colouring in pages and paper dolls).





                              

                         



And we wrapped it all up with a good pub dinner at the Butt Inn, Aldermaston!




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