A fellow CES intern emailed the list asking for company on a weekend trip - I didn't know her, but wrote back and we met at the train station to go to Windsor. A bit like a blind date, but it was a terrific day trip. The high street in the town was charming, winding around live music performances, shop keepers promoting their fancy ladies' clothes or discount pastries, and hyper-polite British police patrolling to keep the tourists in order. In the afternoon, we visited famed Eton College, perhaps the most prestigeous and expensive boarding highschool in the world. The guy my freshman roommate seduced, err, is dating, attended Eton and it was only a 5 min walk from Windsor.
The main spectacle was of course, Queen Elizabeth II's weekend home, the charming, 13th century, sprawling Windsor Castle. We saw guards marching and changing (not changing clothes of course!). We saw the full tour of the outside grounds, gardens, moat, gates, booby-traps (haha Todd, booby!) and enjoyed the company of a charming British tour guide who loved his job and knew everything. The inside was well, expansive and over-decorated in the way that famous castles tend to be. The main dining hall had seats for 160 guests at one long table. 18th century British portraiture covered the walls and plush carpet covered the roped-off floors. Spectacular, but nothing I didn't expect in terms of extravagance, size, and stature.
An afternoon well spent!
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