"Welcome to Sherwood!"
"Welcome to Sherwood!"
Welcome to Sherwood
The Major Oak tree; 33 feet in diameter, somewhere between 600 and 1,100 years old, they say
Robyn Hode statue
Note that "the little ones" don't do quite as well on this deal
From Grantham, we continued on north, getting as far as Sherwood Forest, in Nottinghamshire. We could not resist camping in the great forest. Well, the visitor center parking lot. But we did watch the 1938 Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHavilland, Basil Rathbone and Claude Rains as bad guys; music by Korngold). And we kept thinking the Sheriff himself, or one of his deputies, might pay us a visit to tell us there was no over-night parking in the lot.
We spent the next morning walking around the Forest paths, reminiscing about our 1989 visit here with Rebecca and Rachel, how changed the place was. For the better, actually. And then, after a visit to the gift shop, we drove on.
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