By Land and By Air

Warwick, the King Maker. What surprised us most was that the numerous ancient soldiers were so small. The people of England have certainly grown in size since then. An exception was Richard the Great who was well over six feet tall.

Along the river which flowed through the grounds there was a small house which was built for Queen Elizabeth I in the mid 1500’s - the bed was well made but never slept in since that time. The Queen was sailing up what was then a river to see the Earl of Essex, who lived at Kenilworth Castle which we later visited. The stream was so small when we saw it, it is unlikely if it could float a duck. The keeper told us a story of when the Queen was visiting the castle, they heard a rustling in one of the bushes and when examined, out came a little boy (Shakespeare) and she kissed him and said, “When you grow old, you can say you were kissed by the Queen” and he said, ”You can say you kissed Shakespeare.” The people of the town really treated us royally - the effects of that visit still give me a warm feeling of England.

When we were there for the two weeks, we visited the small towns in the area - we went to Stratford and visited Shakespeare’s home; saw the rocker he was rocked in as a baby; and many more keepsakes. We visi:ed the destroyed, bombed-out town of Coventry which still makes history today as they say that Churchill knew of the attack but did not want to let the Germans know that the Allies had recently broken the famous code. The knowledge was used to such great success, even Admiral Donitz who took over when Hitler died, claimed at the trial of Nuremberg that he was unaware that the code was broken. YOu may remember that Donitz was the head of the submarine warfare. The Germans built up the church in Coventry after the end of the war, which had some

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