I decide which book I would pull off the library shelves, were I allowed.
One of Mom's favorite sculptures (a copy of the bust is in the Minneapolis Institute of Art), only this time the Vestal Virgin gets a touch of Christmas festivity. (Yes, we visited on Nov. 3, but the English really get into the whole Christmas spirit thing...early).
It may have been Christmassy inside the house, but outside it was pure autumn bliss.
I pose with my traveling companions and fellow disciples Ruth and Jo. We left Nottingham at 8 a.m. on Saturday morning and traveled by bus about 2.5 hours, stopping in the city of Derby and then little villages as we wound our way into the Peak District and then to Chatsworth House. We spent an hour exploring the house itself but then four hours having a blast on the grounds. We walked all through the formal gardens and got lost in the hedge maze, we traipsed through woods and over bridges, we climbed alongside fountains and took a tram tour of the woods on the ridge and an Elizabethan hunting tower. We picknicked on a ledge overlooking the valley and then had tea and cake in the stables-turned-restaurant. We finally left at 4:15 p.m., took a bus to the village of Matlock and puttered around a bit there before catching another bus back to Nottingham. We arrived home around 7, tired but very happy with our exciting day.
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I decide which book I would pull off the library shelves, were I allowed.
One of Mom's favorite sculptures (a copy of the bust is in the Minneapolis Institute of Art), only this time the Vestal Virgin gets a touch of Christmas festivity. (Yes, we visited on Nov. 3, but the English really get into the whole Christmas spirit thing...early).
It may have been Christmassy inside the house, but outside it was pure autumn bliss.
I pose with my traveling companions and fellow disciples Ruth and Jo. We left Nottingham at 8 a.m. on Saturday morning and traveled by bus about 2.5 hours, stopping in the city of Derby and then little villages as we wound our way into the Peak District and then to Chatsworth House. We spent an hour exploring the house itself but then four hours having a blast on the grounds. We walked all through the formal gardens and got lost in the hedge maze, we traipsed through woods and over bridges, we climbed alongside fountains and took a tram tour of the woods on the ridge and an Elizabethan hunting tower. We picknicked on a ledge overlooking the valley and then had tea and cake in the stables-turned-restaurant. We finally left at 4:15 p.m., took a bus to the village of Matlock and puttered around a bit there before catching another bus back to Nottingham. We arrived home around 7, tired but very happy with our exciting day.
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