5/30/11 Jolly Good Day

Today we went to Burghley House which required taking the tube, the train, then we had a lil bus for our group. This cute old british man gave us a wonderful tour and kept sayin jolly good the whole time :) The house was amazing and had extravagant ceilings, furniture, and carvings but we weren't allowed to take pictures so once again you will just have to trust me on this one. In the restaurant there I had a chocolate croissant and scone with cream and jam....delish! Then we took pics of the garden of surprises, and sculpture garden, both amazing. After that we headed to Stamford a nearby town with lots of lil shops. Parts of Pride and Prejudice were filmed at both places we went today. Then we headed home and because it was "spitting rain" as they say, my flatmate Stacy and I got hot chocolate and half price baggette sandwiches. After awhile we went to the grocery store then chilled with people in our group at the flats. All in all today was just wonderful, and cant wait to share tomorrow with you all.

at the Kings Cross train station we found the fake platform 9 and 3/4 off Harry Potter because the real one is where they are doing some construction and only a plain brick wall is there right now.

This is Burghley House and some of the family lives is parts of it still today so the sections you can tour is only about 15 of the couple hundred of rooms they have.

Treat/lunch time. Quite yummy indeed.

By one of the ponds outside. it was lightly raining and the drops made for beautiful pictures.

A detail on the house... I guess its a cross between a lion and a leaf haha idk i just thought it looked cool.

In the Garden of Surprises. It really did have surprises and water would start and stop trickling down or shooting up in some spots randomly.

Ok so I might have a new obsession with rust, it is just so pretty.

Exploring in the sculpture gardens!

One of my favorite sculptures there :)

Gorgeous grafitti I found in Stamford, got way excited when I spotted it and started rinning towards it.

Possibly the most adorable door I have seen thus far :)

Cute spire type sculpture on the way into Stamford.

Oh and the other day I forgot to tell you all how Stacy and I were walking to Hyde Park when a stranger stopped us to ask how to get to the nearest tube station. We knew the name and told him how to get there. We were so proud of ourselves for knowing our way around and lookin like the type of people you would ask for directions haha

good night for now,

Maddie the Londoneer