The Royal Wedding
Ellen Mc Nulty is President of Lynott Tours
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Lambing season is always rewarding in the British countryside. Nothing is more charming than rolling green hills dotted with mama sheep and their baby lambs - just in time for Easter. We traveling through the countryside on a royal tour, including Kate Middleton’s home village of Bucklebury, in Berkshire. It’s not much more than two pubs, a butcher shop, and a thatched house, but we had lunch n the pub, where they told us the story of the sheep races and duck races in Bucklebury. An annual tradition with a twist this year, the participant animals are named Charles, Camilla, and for other royals. Sounds like fun. A special race day will be held on the day of the royal wedding, April 29, 2011.
Tetbury, known not only as the home of Charles and Camilla, but it is also home to many antique shops and charity shops, too. Highgrove was not yet open for the season, but we visited the shop where they sell organic products from Highgrove farm.
I had not been to the theater in Stratford in at least 25 years, but the newly refurbished theater is magnificent. We had a pre-theatre dinner and walk about the Royal Shakespeare Theatre followed by Romeo and Juliet production, a contemporary twist on a classic, starring a British tv actor as Romeo. After a £112.8 million refurbishment, the 1000-seat auditorium is the largest thrust stage with a tiered auditorium in the world. The theatre opened in November, 2010. The first performances began in February. The Royal Shakespeare Company will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2011. We had a walking tour of the village - The world of Wuthering Heights is brought to life in the famous village of Haworth, including a visit to Brontë Parsonage Museum which was once home to the literary great the Brontës. The town, too, seems known for its large sized cats, which appear in backyards, streets, and even the Apothecary Shop. The town would be charming, even without the Bronte Association.
The bulk of our time was spent in Yorkshire. We traveled through the bleak landscape of the Moors to Haworth. We enjoyed
lunch at the Weavers, a pub, decorated with old spindles from long ago. The food was just fabulous, including sticky toffee pudding.
