Warwick and Chatsworth House weekend

I got a last minute ticket to join Lyn on the coach trip to Warwick Castle and Chatsworth House. My mobile phone died late afternoon the day before we went...I use it to take photos with.... I had the phone looked at...no good...didn't want to get another phone yet...waiting for new i phone coming out in September.....So last minute dash to buy a cover for my ipad so I could take that with me to take photos on.....With it being school holidays both venues were packed with people. Warwick Castle was over run with families.....the children enjoying Horrible Histories in the grounds of the castle....and there was even a medieval style tent to housed the baby buggies whilst the families went on the castle tour. On the whole the children were very well behaved in the castle.....no fraught parents constantly telling their children off... which was refreshing.
I think the first fortified dwelling on the site was 840 ish and by 1066 it was a wooden Mott and Bailey structure. To be able to gently touch something that was touched by human beings hundreds of years ago....and look out of the windows on the same (ish) views.....always gets to me. I didn't attempt to take any photos as my ipad was too big in the cramped conditions...Lyn had to wait for a gap to get hers !!! So to see some of the things we saw....go to Liniecat@Large or liniecat.blogspot.co.uk.
I want to go back to both venues to take photos....At Chatsworth inspiration for patchwork and applique was everywhere.
The hotel.....I won't name it....staff were lovely, food was lovely, rooms were lovely.....but....you knew there would be a BUT didn't you...lol....yet another trip where the hotel has a wedding party booked in the function rooms.......not just a wedding party but...............................................................................another
Indian wedding party with the throbbing music blasting out....bass on full.....everything vibrating and pulsating....the drivers room was directly above the function room and had to be moved.....we were told  the music would be turned down at 8pm............11pm...
fortunately I was in the roof and with my hearing aid out....bliss.....
apparently it was a proper wedding...complete with a big noisy argument at 2am !!!or so I was told.
I really must record.....the size of the sheets of toilet paper.....9cm square !!!....I brought one home to put in my diary ! Go on get the ruler out....!