Warwick Castle

My reaction to the consumerist, child-ridden mess
that was Warwick Castle. (Slight Exaggeration.)

Ever wanted to go to a medieval and run around pretending to be a knight or a princess or whatever? Well, Warwick Castle is the place to do so. Unfortunately, it's full of  annoying schoolkids doing just that. So many of them...

Okay, as much as the Grumpy Cat in me wanted to be disappointed, (I mean, really, compare it to the elegant decay that was Corfe Castle) but Warwick Castle is very well preserved, thanks in part to this annoying tourism, so it does in fact deserve some historical merit. Here's some of the cool stuff I found.



Lovely gardens:

This here is a "test your strength" device in one of the exhibits.
It has multiple strength levels, from "girl" (I'm not kidding. Some bastard actually included that)
to "knight." This is me pulling it all the way up to the "knight" level. Ha.

For some reason this wax sculpture of a horse looks very surprised.

This part here was pretty cool. It's the water-powered electric station for the castle, added in the early 1900's.  Full of gears, rust, panels, levers and dials. My kinda place:

Update: More pictures of that here.

Inside the castle: