Old Sarum and Salisbury

We took a tour with Lehmannfest to Old Sarum and Salisbury on our second day in Camberley. Old Sarum is an old village that dates back before Stonehenge (3000 B.C.). All that is left is just small portions of the rock walls throughout the city since it was pretty much forgotten once everything was moved to Salisbury. Jack and Theo loved running around and climbing up on the wall remnants. We got some fun trinkets for them at the gift shop, hence Theo's crown! Jack got a catapult pencil sharpener that really works and catapulted pebbles around the grounds :)

We found an old well and saw coins at the bottom so we let the boys toss in some pence and make wishes! Who knows what they wished for, probably toys. Ha. We packed back in the tour bus and headed to near by Salisbury. That's the modern day Old Sarum and is where Salisbury Cathedral is located. It's most recently known from The Pillars of the Earth book series. The cathedral was massive and really impressive to walk through. Jack enjoyed taking the tour with Dave but Theo was a little more of a challenge ;) We hurried through and wrote the name of a neighbor fighting cancer in the prayer book before venturing out to the grounds outside. Theo was much happier there and ran around. We saw a wedding party arrive and walk in to the cathedral. Imagine getting married there!!

We ate lunch at The Lazy Cow and had an English version of clam chowder. Very different but good. English food tends to be so bland and starchy!! I swear I didn't see any vegetables on this leg of the trip that weren't starches, minus one salad at our hotel. *sigh*. The boys loved eating sugar cubes as a treat since we had tea with nearly every meal. We also had "chips" with nearly every meal. Makes me laugh at how we had to hunt down ketchup for our chips :)

Salisbury itself was a beautiful town. I loved the flowers hung all around and several painted doors that I saw on our walk. We had some delay with our bus so most of the Hadskey family rested tired feet on a bench while we waited. I love having so many cousins-in-law that are close in age to me :)