Woke up at the Holiday Inn in Stratford upon Avon. Headed into town to get a on a Bus tour of Stratford and the Shakespeare house at Tourist Information. Guess what, tourist information opens at 10 AM and the bus tour starts at 10 AM, but not from Tourist Information. So we ended up waiting an hour at Pen and Parchment for the bus. We finally started our journey and went to Anne Hathaway’s house first. It was great!!! Then we missed our bus and had to wait another hour. Still it was a good adventure. Then back on the bus, into town and had lunch across from Shakespeare’s birthplace/home. We attempted to go to the doctor’s house but it was closed (4 pm) so we picked up our luggage from the hotel and walked to the train station to go home. It was a tough journey for all of us as we were very tired.
We learned about the phrase “Frog in your throat”. Apparently when a person was hoarse or had a sore throat, the doctor would take a frog tie a string to its legs and dangle the frog in the sick person’s throat until the frog produced salvia which the sick person swallowed. It turns out that now in modern medicine they are able to test the frog and have determined that the saliva had antibiotic element. That is where the phrase “Do you have a frog in your throat” comes from.
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| Tree in Shakespeares' back garden. |
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| Shakespeares' house |
A picture of the Stratford High Street to the left.
Ann Hathaway's house (Shakespeare never lived here) below.
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