Know Where You Walk

We were unable to update our blog while we were in China due to the internet 'iron curtain' which was frustrating as we had SO MUCH to say about our China experience. But now that we are home we can wrap up our final entries. In the 5 weeks we were travelling we had so many 'know where you walk' moments with the amount of history that surrounded us at times.

Hilary had one of those moments when she went out to take a photo of the Hotel we had stayed in the night before in Stratford-Upon-Avon.

It was situated on an T-intersection and on one corner was a church that was established in 1238. Then this is the old tudor hotel we stayed in that is over 400 years old.



On the last corner was the house that William Shakespeare lived in for 19 years and died in only 4 years after writing his last play.



But when it comes to being surrounded by history we think that the burial tombs we were able to walk into in Ireland took the cake.

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They are older than the Pyramids and it was quite an experience to walk through the passageway and view the burial chamber and stone drawings. Once a year at the Summer Solstice is the only time that the sun shines through the front flat capstone and illuminates the chamber, it is such a sort after event that they run a lottery each year for a chance to be there.