James Tucker in Cov

Last Saturday Laura and I walked from Kenilworth Castle to Warwick (which has a castle we didn't look at). Kenilworth's about a mile from the University, just south of the edge of Coventry, and is one of the prettiest towns I've seen. There's a long main street, lined with very old houses and a couple pubs. At one end is the church and some shops, at the other end is the castle, and some more pubs.
The castle's obviously seen better days (it was 'reduced' during the Civil War), but was one of the biggest, and hosted all sorts of Kings and Queens in its history. The picture above doesn't really do it justice for sheer size until you realise that the wall around the base is 12 to 15 feet high.
From there the walk's a pretty simple one across farm fields and a small woods, until you hit the suburban outskirts of Warwick. That said, it was a six-mile walk, and a pretty windy day, so it wasn't the easiest going in the world.
Once we hit Warwick, we were reminded that this was the Mop Fair weekend. This started as an employment fair for domestic help, apparently, and is now just a big carnival.
Brilliantly, they set up the rides right in the main square, near the church and inside the city gates. We could see edges of the castle from here and there in the streets, but were much more concerned with having some dinner than in walking down to the walls again- we've been to Warwick before, and it's pretty easy to get to from Coventry, so we can go again.