Today we took our second day trip, this time to Hampton Court Palace, and it was a lot of fun. We were leaving for the train station at 9:00 AM, so I started my day by turning off my alarms, skipping breakfast and rolling out of bed about 15 minutes before we left. Surprisingly though I wasn’t too tired once we got on the train, and before I knew it we were at our destination. The palace was a short walk from the train station, and once we got there we were greeted with a beautiful view of the building with a field of pretty flowers in front of it.
Once inside we picked up an audio guide, which I did not use, and then were free to explore the palace walls and surrounding yards. Having essentially free realm of such a historic sight was pretty cool, but I had only one goal for the visit: find the maze. The moment I learned there was a hedge maze I knew I had to do it, but I think the true maze was trying to navigate your way to the maze without a map. Luckily it is a very pretty place, and so I wasn’t at all bored looking for my maze, but once I found it I was very happy.
Unfortunately one of the many groups of school kids seemingly all visiting Hampton Court Palace at the same time also chose to enter the maze, but I wasn’t gonna let them ruin maze time. I will say, the maze could have been longer, but we did manage to get lost a few times so I can’t complain, and in the end it was exactly what I wanted. I don’t know why there was a maze though, and the audio guide wasn’t allowed to be taken outside of the palace so I know that wouldn’t have helped even if I had been listening to it.
Hampton Court Palace was a very pretty place, and our day trip was a lot of fun. We got back with enough time for me to impulse buy tickets to see tonight’s showing of Cabaret, which I just now have gotten back from. I could probably write multiple blogs about the show but to put it simply it was incredible, I think my favorite thing I’ve seen so far.
Theatre in London U of A 