When we visited Stratford-Upon-Avon this year I was
desperate to visit Shakespeare's home, the house is so stunning from the
outside and we never got to visit last time we were in Stratford. Its weird
isn't it? Shakespeare is one of those names I cant ever remember not knowing,
you are aware of him very early on in life, although I did not become aware of
his works until high school.
The boys were not initially keen to visit but I
insisted they give it a try as surely this is better way of leaning about
William Shakespeare than reading it from a book of hearing from a teacher who
no matter how enthused they are cannot recreate the feeling of being in the
presence of his soul that you feel in his birthplace home.
We visited two homes of the estate, although I wish
we had time to visit them all. The first being Shakespeare birthplace the
family home on Henley Street, he born on the 23rd April 1564 to John and Mary Arden Shakespeare. He grew up in this
very house itself, it is fascinating to walk around the corridors of
the home he would have played as a boy with his 7 brothers and sisters.
He married Anne Hathaway at the age of 18 and continued to live here
for a further 5 years.
