There are battlements to climb, exhibits and demonstrations of medieval weapons, displays of jousting and ‘Flight of the Eagle’ where birds of prey such as buzzards and eagles are flown. A whole day could be spent here but allow for 3 hours.

It is about 45 minutes from Warwick to the Cotswolds village of Chipping Camden for lunch and shopping.

The Cotswolds is an ‘Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’ totalling about 800 square miles. The very pretty landscape is that of gentle rolling hills through which rivers flow and quintessential English villages are built on. Built of locally quarried limestone, most of the cottages, manor houses and churches in these villages were erected between two and four hundred years ago.

After lunch we drive along the single track roads that the tourist buses cannot get down. I will explain how sheep, in particular their wool, made the area very prosperous and talk about agriculture in the UK today as we drive pass many farms. There are plenty of villages that can be included on the tour, for example, Broadway, Snowshill and Stow on the Wold.

It is about 2 hours from the Cotswolds back to central London.