Tour of Stratford

Recently we went on a tour of Stratford on a bus and we visited Shakespeare's birthplace.
On the bus journey we learnt and found out a lot of things. We saw a flat top tree that had been around for a five hundred years. The tree was quite impressive but if i was making one of those audio guides for the bus I wouldn’t include this as it is just a tree. We learned that Shakespeare’s birthplace was sold a few hundred years ago for £3K. I found this fact quite interesting as it may not sound like a lot now but was insane amounts for back then. A man from Stratford came up with the idea to put frog saliva down throats if it was saw or they had a cold, this is where the phrase 'a frog in your throat' comes from and that some people slept on beds made from rope which is where the phrase 'good night, sleep tight' comes from were 2 more things that we found out. Kids had tilly willy ale and grown men had 8 pints of ale back in the day, salary is Latin for salt and people use to get paid in salt and that’s why we use salary now as a common substitution for wages were EVEN MORE interesting facts we found out.
On the tour we found out a lot of facts that were totally irrelevant to Stratford itself and found out little about Shakespeare, which is what most people would like to find out about when on a trip to Stratford.
When we arrived at the birthplace we watched some screens about Shakespeare himself for a while, this gave us a good introduction into his life and his plays. After this we moved on to the house itself. In the house we discovered that William's father was a glove maker and we found out about gloves and how gloves were made back then, I found this quite interesting purely because of the weird man who was giving the talk on them. Next we saw a timeline of Shakespeare and the entered the bedroom. In the bedroom we found out where the phrase ‘good night, sleep tight’ again… this made me quite disappointed as i was hoping to find out some more stuff about what it was like living back then, she also said something about it being important what colour your bed sheets were as they would keep spirits away but I didn't hear it properly as I was taking in the scenery of the room. We then moved on to the court yard where we saw a random performance of a drunken man taking a rollicking from his wife. The performance was well set out and funny, cheering me up from what hadn't been an exactly spectacular tour.
Overall I found the Birthplace better because I found the Bus journey a bit tedious. The bus journey gave you a good idea of what it was like in medieval times but I wasn’t in the mood for a boring history lesson with the woman with the most boring voice in the world so found it hard not to change languages to cheer myself up and I was also pondering the question of why do you have an open top bus if you could get whacked in the face by a tree where as the Birthplace you could be told it to your face and made it easier and a more enjoyable experience of learning about medieval times.