World Enough and Time

I spent a good part of the day at Kenilworth Castle, with its magnificent Renaissance gardens and wonders of many types. A 12th century keep! John of Gaunt's beautiful palace! Not to mention the oh so romantic story of Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley... All those glam celebrities of history, and beautiful trees, and a view that goes on forever.

But that wasn't the castle of the day, because, as gillo pointed out, we saw Kenilworth in passing yesteday. No: the new castle was Warwick, not visited but seen from a distance as we went to the truly amazing St. Mary's Church, which had me spellbound with its Normal Crypt, its wonderful tombs of people I know from the history books, and a guide happy to talk to us about all of it.

All that and teddy bears too.

Speaking of bears... A medieval garden at the Lord Leycester Hospice. Oh, I could go on and on.

A glorious day, topped off with the rest of season 4 of Buffy and Chinese food.