Neither Of us are Shakespeare fans, but since we were driving right past Stratford Upon Avon, it seemed we should pop in. The English love Shakespeare, who has always been revered and respected here. There has been a Shakespeare Society since the 1800s keeping care of his birthplace, grave etc. The Avon river is full of young lovers in rowboats, although THEY were obviously not on a rowing team like our Jason!
Today we are in York and visited the Knaresborough Petrifying Falls. This was one place were Gus really wanted to go. Do fossils take millions of years to form, or can it happen in the space of months? People have been coming here since the time of Kind Henry VIII. There are all kinds of artifacts here turned into stone. We bought a rock teddy which took 3 months to turn to stone.
The town of York has quite a bit of history. We climbed the York Minster Tower on the cathedral. It's always such a wonder how people could build these huge edifices without modern technology or power tools. What was going through their minds when they knew it wouldn't be finished in their life, or that of their children or grandchildren.
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