A visit to Kingston Lacy
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
We had another late start today but after a check on the MET office app, National Trust's Kingston Lacy seemed to be our best chance of avoiding the rain so that's where we headed, arriving just after 1. We had a cream tea each for lunch in the cafe - which was as ever overrrun and under-staffed (a common trait of National Trust properties we've found). The house has timed entry tickets and it was suggested online that we should have booked these in advance, fortunately they seemed to have plenty left for all of the timeslots (which are every 15 minutes), so after our cream tea, we went for a wander inside.
The house is pretty vast and is set over three floors with the usual grand rooms, although these seemed to be more dimly lit than usual so the guides were using torches to highlight things to the visitors. The real highlight has to be the bedrooms in the ceiling, these are described as tented bedrooms, decorated to look like the inside of a tent. The effect was amazing - I wonder if it would work in our top bedroom...
We decided to try the White Lion, which is a short walk away from the cottage, for tea. The restaurant was fully booked but we were able to order food and sit at a table in the bar area. The food was very good, Dani had a burger, whilst I had steak and kidney pie, both were served with huge chunk chips. It was very nice, but incredibly filling, so after a rather slow walk back to the cottage, we spent the rest of the evening slothed on the sofa, nursing a food baby before calling it a night.
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Bed, Bath and Beyond
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
We had a bit of a lie-in today and after a late breakfast we decided to head for Bath. The weather was a bit wet and we had already decided that we needed to do a bit of shopping. We were aiming for the park and ride having read that parking can be a bit of a nightmare, but having lost track of the signs, we found ourselves in the city centre, helpfully just by a car park, so we dived in. As it turned out the car park was really quite central, just around the corner from Debenhams.
It remained fairly drizzly through the day although seemed to stop leaving just cloud later in the afternoon. We managed to pick up a few bits, I got some t-shorts and jeans and Dani picked up a couple of new tops. We also finally managed to get ourselves a jug after what seems like months of looking - we settled on a small red Cornishware one from a shop that sold a bit of everything. All in all a pretty successful day!
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