We picked up a hire car after work, and were at our hotel, an old manor house called Frimly Hall (http://www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk/frimleyhall/index.htm?macd_source_link=http://www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk/hotels/location_hotels.htm) in just over an hour. I had booked a convertible, thinking it might be nice to drive around the English countryside in the summer, with the roof down. Sadly, the English summer continued to be decidedly wintery, and so the roof stayed up virtually all of the weekend. We had a really excellent dinner that night in the hotel restaurant.
Saturday, 18 August 2007
We spent the day catching up with my old friends, Tim and Rachel, and their two little boys, Joseph and Finlay. I spent my gap year in 1995 with Tim and Rachel, who lived and worked at Northbourne Park School with me. Tim is now the boarding housemaster at The Eagle House School (http://www.eaglehouseschool.com/), a lovely looking prep school, set in beautiful grounds. We had a cup of tea with them at the school, then headed out for a great pub lunch, before returning to the school for another cup of tea and plenty of reminiscing. Cat and I then made our way back to our hotel and had a quiet night in, with a very lazy room service dinner.
Sunday, 19 August 2007
After breakfast at the hotel, we headed to nearby Windsor and spent a few hours there, mainly touring Windsor Castle, which we both really enjoyed. The State Apartments, in particular, blew us away. Below are a few photos (photos were not permitted inside the State Apartments)...
We then headed back to London, where we were welcomed home by an extremely obverzealous parking inspector, who managed to book us in the 30 or so seconds that it took us to drop our bags inside our apartment on route to returning the hire car. Nonetheless, it was a great weekend away.
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