Day 8 Greetings from Lincoln

We left the B&B, oh did I say it was really nice?, and headed home to London with a loooooong stop in Lincoln. This had to be one of my favorite places. Each day I found several "favorite places" and it was OK....Son said I didn't have to pick a one favorite. Here they were reenacting the War of Roses and there was lots going on including the advance of the Scottish regiment complete with drum and bagpipe. That was very interesting but one of the best things about it was going away from the castle where they were doing the War and having the Bishop's
Palace ruin all to ourselves. Everyone was at the War so we could wander at will. It was really neat. One of the neatest things was the medieval graffitti on some of the doors. Imagine, it has kept all these many years. Again, I was overwhelmed at the ages of things. The cathedral was one of the best. Quite like the others we have seen but not as crowded. Again the L.D. had a lot of interesting things to add to our tour that made it outstanding. In the castle, was a dungeon where all the family went--except yours truly! I was scared. It was down a dark hole by way of a ladder. Not me! Prisoners were chained to the walls. Yuk!!! We did see a 13th century prison (above ground) which was quite interesting. A couple of areas had videos of women being accused for things. In one case, of something she didn't do and she was being sentenced to death. It was so sad. She had her little baby with her. I felt sad. Also, we saw the Magna Carta which had a whole building dedicated to it. Oh, and in the cathedral, were several small chapels including one that had an altar for each section of the Armed Forces. That was so neat.

To get to these places we had to walk up a VERY steep hill called "Steep Street" appropriately enough. Easy to see why!! The brochures suggested that you do all the things you wanted to do on one level before going on the other one because going up and down would be impossible on foot. Fun and
exciting day and safely back "home" to London which is really home to 1/2 of our group.