Day 12- London

We had requested Vivek, to come at his leisure and take us to any convenient sight seeing locations. Vivek came around 1030 AM. Manav was with him. We decided to go to Windsor Castle.
The drive to Windsor castle took around an hour. We had a good look at the country side on the way. There is a lake close to the car park, where ducks were in abundance. It was a great view on the Windsor lake.
The walk to the castle was just about 5 minutes. The castle was breathtaking. The surrounding areas were exceptionally clean. We paid around 15 pounds per head to enter the castle. The arrangements for ticket issues, etc., were well taken care of, in the sense that there were personnel to ask you what you wanted to see and direct you to the appropriate counters.
As in all big palaces and castles, the sight of the living rooms, drawing rooms, bedrooms etc were exceptionally huge with extremely rich looking furniture's.
There was a group of school children, being taken around, presumably with their teachers. The questions they were asking the personnel manning the castle viz How often does the queen visit the palace, when did she come last, which was the chair occupied by Prince Charles in the dining table etc., made one proudly look at the kids generation.
There is a doll room attached. where clothes worn by the royal family during various ages, with the name and address of the manufacturers were on display. Proud advertising for the manufacturers. Photographs of the royal family at various ages and occasions were very well displayed. This included the young days of Prince Charles, his school and college days, days spent with Late Princess Diana, marriage with the new princess, the children of the Prince etc., It was a splendid display.
We had a good tour outside. Here also, we saw the typical British guards. The way they move around every 20 minutes, catches the attention of one and all. We filled up a questionnaire and got 3 free passes for the next visit, which we gave to Vivek.
We exchanged our Euro for Pounds at a local bank. Had lunch at Mac, courtesy Vivek. Had a wonderful half an hour at the lake, feeding the ducks and enjoying Manav's reactions whenever he had ducks jumping at him for the feed.
We returned to the hotel at 1730. We decided to have dinner on our own, and requested Vivek not to pick us up for dinner, Saw a Euro cup soccer match on TV and went to sleep.