Windsor Castle Tour
"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas any more..."
 
Runs: Saturday, January 7th and Saturday, March 10th
at 9.30 am from Waterloo Railway Station
 
Meet at 9.30 am by the main ticket office of 
Waterloo  Railway Station
(the main ticket office is opposite Platform 16)

Windsor is Camelot on the silvery Thames. Windsor is a 1000-year-old castle commanding the Great Park and brooding over a mediaeval town. Windsor is the most famous royal residence in the world. Windsor is "the architectural epitome of the English nation...its fabric provides an insight into the evolving ideas about kingship and related rituals, about techniques of military defense, and about developing expectations of domestic comfort and convenience. But despite its familiar appearance, nothing at Windsor is quite what it seems...for behind its imposing walls and gates lie centuries of secrecy, intrique and forgotten visions of grandeur." And - embarras de richesses...just over the 18th-century footbridge there's Eton, ancient Thameside town and legendary school. And here the superlatives peal like bells...because Eton College, founded 50 years before Columbus discovered America, is the most famous school in the world. It's the nursery of kings – Prince William was educated here – and the crucible of a defining moment in history: for "the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. 

 In the Winter-Spring 2011-12 London Walks programme –
which kicked in on Nov. 1st and runs through April 30th –
we go to Windsor Castle & Eton on
 
Saturday, January 7th
 
Saturday, March 10th
 
Meet your guide – the preternaturally gifted Simon –
at 9.30 am by the main ticket office (opposite Platform 16) of
Waterloo  Railway Station
 
 Tariff  c. £27