Day 1 Windsor

Day 1 Saturday April 20th 2024

Flew into Heathrow, rented a car and drove to Windsor. Driving on the left side of the road from the left side of the car is always a bit challenging, but we adjusted pretty quickly.

We stayed at an Airbnb near Windsor Castle. We rented a three bedroom house as Grace will be joining us. She was in Barcelona and is staying with her friend Georgia in London. Grace will be taking the train out to meet us in Windsor and travel with us for a few days. She had initially got tickets for us to see the Chelsea’s women soccer team play in Kings Meadow, but the game got canceled and moved to another location on a different day. Our exchange student Antonio was going to meet up with us as well, but forgot that England left the EU and he did not have a valid passport to come to England to visit us. So we had lots of room. 

We arrived early and were able to get into our Airbnb early by paying an extra fee over the phone. Grace was not arriving at the train station until later in the day, so we took a short nap to adjust to the time change. Then we decided to explore the area and walk towards Windsor Castle.

We found The Piper Art Bar. It had an interesting menu with Haggis Balls listed at the top of the page for snacks. The waitress caught me googling Haggis and warned me not to do that. I agreed that it is better to not know somethings. We ended up ordering the Loaded Fries. These are skinny fries topped with haggis, black pudding, red onion and Monterey Jack cheese. The fries were fantastic! I even enjoyed the haggis and the black pudding.

Found a small bodega on our way back to the apartment and picked up some wine.

Next we needed to pick up Grace from the train station. Apple Maps did not give good directions to the train station, but we eventually found it. There is literally no parking in this part of town, so Sandy dropped me off and I walked to get Grace then had Sandy drive around and pick us up again. Then back to the apartment.

Grace was starving when she arrived, so we went straight to a restaurant that was right across from our apartment. The Prince Arthur Pub. It was a nice little pub where we ordered our first Fish and Chips of the trip.The food was good and the beer was better. The Wisteria was blooming and so beautiful.