Chapel Porth

In mid September some of us went to Chapel Porth in Cornwall for the weekend. We had beautiful weather for the whole weekend and enjoyed it thoroughly. Some of us even got a little TOO much sun :)

Henrik

The extensive beach at Perranporth

Crazy Finns

Angie and Jonas sinking in the sand

Castle building competition

View from the place we were staying

Horses :)

Last Friday Aurelie and I went to the National Carriage Driving Championships in the Windsor Great Park. You can see the castle in the background. The event lasted all weekend, we were there for just a few hours during the dressage phase. It was as if we had gone back in time about a hundred years with all the horses and carriages and fancy costumes surrounding us.

These ponies were cute. Not like regular ponies, more like a horse down-sized. Very petite, they were.

It was interesting how this horse on the fore right always had his ears pricked, while the others always had them back.

Windsor castle

Aurelie and I went to Windsor castle at the beginning of this month. Actually, we went to Windsor, and then decided to tour the castle as well. It was worth it. Quite a place, really.

These funny faces were all over the walls. Wonder whose idea it was?

The walls were many meters thick in some places!

We got to go inside as well, but no photography was allowed there. Pity, for some of the rooms were something to behold. Whole rooms filled with weapons, armour, paintings, tapestries, gold, silver.. you name it. I was most interested by the things that had been given Queen Victoria a long time ago: weapons and royal garment from far off lands. If only one could board a time machine and travel back to those times to see how life was. History is such an interesting thing, one can't help but be fascinated by it.

That would be a statue of the Imperial Queen herself

Cute guys with a boring job

We agreed that this must be the only place where an ice cream vendor wears a uniform :)

Streets of Windsor