Greetings Fellow Adventurers!
What a fantastic day – for the first time since January, my wife Alli and I finally had a chance to visit a Castle!!!

We took a trip to Kenilworth in Warwickshire, partly just for the hell of it, and partly to scout out what ‘social distancing’ measures were in place.
It was awesome to be there again, to have a cuppa from the tea rooms (I actually had my first Latte in 6 months!) and walk around the ruins and soak up the history, even in the drizzle (which thankfully made it lovely and quiet).

Kenilworth has some fantastic stories and is a very important castle in our history – I’m sure Alli will write a post about it before too long, so watch out for that.

The one-way system that had been put in place wasn’t too bad (they did pretty well keeping it as openly-accessible as possible) although some areas had been closed off due to ‘pinch points’…
…We may or may not have had a quick peek around the corner of one…

It really was a massive tonic, as was getting to spend some time with Alli again, sans Children. I think even Ratty enjoyed the blast up the motorway!
Farewell my friends.
At last. At bl**dy last! I’ve missed my castles so much. A truly fabulous afternoon, even more so because of the weather – it makes it so much more atmospheric. Trouble is, I want to go back again tomorrow now and do it all again. Here’s to a small, but perfect dose of near-normality, and here’s to castles everywhere. π
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lol – I am more than happy to go back tomorrow! It was indeed a fab afternoon and I loved every minute of it – the company was awesome β€
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Pleased to see you at a castle, Haven’t been there since I was a lad, so nice to see it. JB
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Thanks John – It was indeed fantastic to finally get in a visit. It really is a great place if you ever get a chance to go back.
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It’s good to see that you finally got a break from the lockdown at last – and Kenilworth is a great place to shake off the cobwebs
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Thanks Malc – it is indeed a great place to shake off the cobwebs. We really enjoyed ourselves for the few hours we were there. We ended up getting chucked out (nicely) at closing time.
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So pleased you got out. Is that your Covid hair?
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Thanks Derrick! Nope, it pretty much looks like that all the time (although it was wet and windy!)
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I thought I may have been identifying – mind you I haven’t yet reached 1970s length π
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π lol – I’ve not quite got to 70’s length either – yet. Actually it is a few inches longer than I’d like but one of the advantages of having long hair is that nobody notices if you haven’t had it cut for a few months!
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Looks a great castle. I think I was going to visit it once but it was pretty expensive (I’m a Yorkshirewoman so very mean with my money! π )
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lol! π It is a great castle, and probably worth the entrance fee but we’re members so it was free π EH membership is pretty worthwhile if you go to a lot of these sorts of places.
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Richard and I keep thinking about getting English Heritage membership – I’m sure we’ll get around to it sometime! π
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Wonderful to see a touch of normality π
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Thanks Sue – it was great to do something (almost) normal!
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I can imagine. All we managed was an ice cream at Ashridge… but at least we finally got out to play π
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Nothing wrong with an Ice Cream at Ashridge – we managed to get one at Coombe hill!
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We went through that way… it was a convoluted meander π
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It’s a lovely area!
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It is indeed. And we were looking for a pub we’d lost π
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Very careless loosing a pub – have you checked behind the sofa π
Which one? Alli might know where it is as she lived in that area for a while.
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Oh, I found it. I never lose a pub for long π
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Yay!!! I am so happy for you! It must feel amazing to embrace this activity you once took for granted. Looks like a nice castle too!! π
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Thanks Brandi – it was pretty awesome!
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Wow!
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Thanks! π
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