Easter Part 4: Stratford upon Avon

Easter Sunday, another bike ride across the city at 8 o'clock in the morning...
This time it "only" took us two hours in the coach - time to listen to music and read: I started reading "The DaVinci Code" - you were all right, this book is AMAZING! It really took me in from the first page on and now it prevents me from getting enough sleep every evening! ;) But I really want to finish it soon so that I can go and watch the movie which will be on here soon!

Arrived in Stratford, our guide took us to the house you can see on this picture: Shakespeare's birthplace! Although it was ridiculously expensive (6£ for students!!!), we really wanted to see this house and the exhibition inside turned out to be quite interesting! There was a lot of information about Shakespeare's childhood, his parents, his school years, his first experiences with theatre and writing, a model of his Globe Theatre and many other things which really fascinated me - and motivated me to read more of his plays! As a future english student I must say that now, right? ;) But seriously, it felt special to be there...
Instead of 10 minutes (what our guide had told us), it took us more than one hour to look at everything there and we realised that we would not have the chance to look at everything we had intended to - there is some kind of museum called the "Shakesperience" which would definitely have been interesting to visit as it provides a lot of information about Shakespeare's life and work in form of an interactive tour; the problem was that the tour takes one hour and we only had 70 minutes left and still wanted to see his grave in the Holy Trinity Church which is on the other side of the town. So we walked to the church, took some picture of the little metal plate that indicates who is buried underneath the stone floor (Pascal had warned us that this is simply ridiculous...) and then returned to the "city centre" and sat down in the very nice park. It was impossible to resist the temptation so we ended up sharing an Ice Cream (do they sell the Magnum Mint in Switzerland? If yes, go for it! It's sooo good! ;)). This was our "shakespeare easter ice cream" and as we ate it we watched "shakespeare ducks" on the river, a special kind of duck we'd never seen so we decided that they only live in Stratford... they didn't make any sound, maybe they communicate in written form and write sonnets? ;) yes, we're crazy, but that's what makes it all interesting and funny, isn't it?!? ;)
After this nice break in the park we went back to the tourist centre where the coach was waiting for us to take us to Warwick Castle...