[dropcap custom_class=”whb”]Today we are going to Windsor Castle. It is one of the homes of the royal family. To get there, we have to take the Tube from Bayswater station to the next station, Paddington. Paddington is one of the stations that you can catch the trains to travel all over England. We catch the First Great Western train to Slough, about a twenty minute ride. In Slough, we change trains and get on the train to Windsor, which also doesn’t take very long. My Travelcard gets us to Slough and the London Pass gets us to Windsor, so we don’t have to buy train tickets. We arrived with no problems and got to the castle just in time to see the changing of the guard. Next we walked through the Doll House and the state rooms. It was very impressive. We also walked through the chapel. Again people are buried in the chapel. When we were at Westminster Abbey, someone asked one of the ushers if there were really bodies buried there. He said about 100 years ago they dug up some of the stones to check and there were indeed bodies buried there.
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After touring the castle, we walked around the village of Windsor. We decided to eat lunch. I wanted to eat outside cause it was a beautiful sunshiny day. We ate at a little restaurant and had sandwiches. After lunch we walked back to the train station to head back to London.
We got on the first train back to Slough, but then when we got off to change trains is where we messed up. There was a train at the station that said it was going to Oxford. I though maybe they meant Oxford Circus which is another stop in London. I was wrong, we were heading to the town of Oxford with a stop in Reading. Now remember, I did not have any train tickets. I did not realize that we were on the wrong train until after the Reading stop. I started praying that the conductor would not come by wanting to see our tickets. Thank goodness we got to Oxford without the conductor checking our tickets. My plan was to buy tickets in Oxford to get us back to London, but we could not exit the platform without tickets. I decided to ask the policeman watching the turnstiles what to do. He said there was a train heading to London Paddington in a few minutes and to get on it. So we did. Again, we did not have any tickets. The train was stopping in Reading and Slough before reaching London. After the stop in Reading, the conductor came by and asked to see our tickets. I pulled out my Travelcard and then explained to him that we had gotten on the wrong train. He just kind of shook his head and walked off. We finally made it to London. Our little adventure took us about an hour out of our way. We then went home to rest.
For supper tonight, I talked Jay into eating at this Persian restaurant called Manoush. Jay had the chicken kebab. I had the chicken and lamb kebab. They were both served with saffron rice and a salad. He also brought us some fresh baked Persian bread. The meal was very good and brought back some fond memories.
