Day 3 - Stratford, Coventry

Our first day on the Trafalgar Tour portion of our trip, and we jump right in! After a short tour of London (aka picking up passengers at other hotels), we hit the open road. (Well, as open as any road out of London can be.) We make a short stop to see Anne Hathaway's cottage (the wife of Shakespeare, not the actress from The Devil Wears Prada) and get a group photo taken. We did not purchase the photo, but we assure you that we looked great in it!

After that slightly awkward gathering, we had a lunch stop in Stratford Upon Avon. The tour of Shakespeare's birthplace (top photo) was amazingly crowded, so we made our experience the expedited version and set off to find some lunch. Thankfully a coworker who had recently taken a trip to England suggested pasties as a quick lunch alternative, so we found a bakery and then set off to wander the town.




Our next stop of the day was Coventry. We toured the bombed out cathedral which dates from the late 14th century to the early 15th century. It was bombed during the Second World War, and the ruins now stand as a war memorial. A new cathedral was built next to it.
















The second and third pictures are of the older section and the bottom picture is of a large window in the new cathedral. It is amazing to walk through the older section and have almost all of the walls still in tact, just no roof.