After a nice cup of chai and delicious poha for breakfast prepared by Puja, we headed out to the Warwick Castle, a medieval castle whose original version was built in 1068. www. warwick-castle.com for more details. The castle grounds and the structure were impressive and the "Battle of the Roses" show, an enactment of the important historical event gave us a good perspective about the series of wars for the control of the throne of England between the house of Lancaster and the house of York represented by the symbol red and white roses respectively. We explored the different areas of the castle and especially climbing up the on the top of the towers for the lovely views of the Warwickshire town and the Avon river.
After Chinmay left with Ashish to the coach station to go to LHR for his flight to Frankfurt, Puja, Kairav and I had a delicious veggie pizza with goat cheese at Pizza Express. Puja drove us through the beautiful English to the quaint town of Cotswold. The vibe was completely laid back with the cafes wrapping up their "afternoon tea", people just hanging out on the green patches of sidewalk along the row of boutiques and cafes, a very picturesque village indeed! We had a leisurely stroll on the high street (that's what the English call their streets lined with shops) and couldn't stop admiring the tree lined brook that cut across the street. Kairav rejoiced touching the water and wished he had a swim suit on to walk in the shallow pebble filled brook!
