The concept of old is an interesting one. In Canada, we live in what is considered an ‘old‘ house, built in the late 1800s. When you go to Europe, your perception of old changes dramatically.

We will be moving to a town called Virginia Water and everywhere you go there is history. Even the pubs have history. I was in The Bull in Sonning this week (A pub) that can be traced back to the 1400’s and that is old hat. There is so much history.

           

I had the good fortune to add to the pubs verbal history by providing a humorous story. While sitting with a work colleague, I had a really tough time with the lamb and my dull knife. In a fit of clumsiness, I pulled on the lamb, a piece came loose and sent a wave of mint sauce up and over the plate onto my light blue golf shirt and dress pants. To which my friend turned to the person next to us and said ‘He is Canadian’ with a shrug.

If you go to the Virginia Water web site and browse the history tab, they provide the option of going back to the 1st century. From Wikipedia:

Virginia Water is a large village, a lake and, originally, a stream, the village being in the borough of Runnymede in Surrey and the bodies of water stretching over the borders of Runnymede, Old Windsor and Sunninghill and Ascot, all in England.

The village takes its name from the lake which is in the nearby Windsor Great Park. The lake’s name was transferred from a previous stream which was probably named after the ‘Virgin Queen’, Elizabeth I.

Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Water>