After we extricated ourselves from the gift shop at Shakespeare’s birthplace, we walked across the very busy shopping mall to a cafe for a light but delicious lunch, ready for our cruise along the Avon River.
There we say swans vying with one another for tasty morsels, novices trying to row their hire boats in one direction without colliding with other boats and canoes, and many small ferries taking people for a short joyride. At one end was a kind of carnival, complete with a ferris wheel.
We were really looking forward to our ferry ride, but as luck would have it, the engine conked out straightaway and then only went in fits and starts - for the whole journey! The noise was horrendous, and our bones were shaken to bits, completely spoiling the experience, as you can imagine.
We were glad of the free time we had after we registered at our historic hotel. Some went shopping. My friends and I had a divine meal in a very old restaurant around the corner from our hotel. The ambience was just great and our dessert was ‘to die for'. It was really lovely to be able to share this quiet meal with the friends I had made on the trip. We only had one more day to go! And it was going to be full-on!
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| This was next to our table in the cafe where we ate lunch. |
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| The teapot up close. Notice its inscription. Another celebration of Shakespeare. |
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| My dessert at the restaurant that night. 'Summer pudding'! Yum! |
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| This and the following photos were taken along the Avon River. There were several bridges along the river. |
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