Scotland and England Advendures
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NOVEMBER - 2005
SCOTLAND: The moment we stepped off the train at Waverley Station, we were standing in a valley. The castle and the medieval old town towering over us were on one side of the station and Princess Street and the Georgian splendor of the new town on the other. Edinburgh is one of the world's great cities, an architectural marvel, and an exciting place to be.
ENGLAND: The sights ranged from Westminster Abbey, the site of coronations and funerals for Britain’s royal family, to Big Ben and the neo-Gothic Parliament Buildings that dominate the Thames River bank and from Buckingham Palace, the Queen’s London residence, to the Tower Bridge a Victorian-era bridge that is situated adjacent to the Tower of London a fortress, notorious as a royal prison and the site of bloody executions.
We toured England’s largest castle, the Royal Windsor. The State Apartments where the ceremonial rooms are used by the Queen to entertain visiting Heads of State. We visited one of the most beautiful religious buildings in England, St. George's Chapel and then we continued to Stonehenge and Salisbury. Stonehenge remains as compelling today as it was to the people who built the first phase over 5,000 years ago. In Salisbury we walked through the town center to view the charming 13th-century cathedral.
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