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    • Day 9

      Chatsworth House (aka Pemberly)

      June 18, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

      Today we visited Chatsworth House, the home of the Duke of Devonshire. You may recognise it as the home of Mr Darcy (aka Pemberly) in Pride and Prejudice. Another beautiful stately home with an equally beautiful garden and landscape. They also had a farmyard and adventure playground for the kids, which you will see in the photos. We are now on our way to York.Read more

    • Day 3

      Chatsworth und Lyme Park

      July 21, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

      Heute sind wir zu den beiden Schlössern gefahren, die in der Hollywood und der BBC Verfilmung Pemberly (Stolz und Vorurteil) waren. Es war unglaublich schön. Die Fahrt war allerdings sehr abenteuerlich. Vor unserem Urlaub habe ich sehr leichtfertig gesagt, dass das Fahren in England kein Problem für mich ist. Grundsätzlich stimmt das auch, aber nur auf Straßen, deren Breite einer Fahrbahn entspricht. Es gibt aber einige kurvige Straßen, bei denen zwei Fahrbahnen einer in Deutschland entspricht. Auf dieser Straße war die Geschwindigkeit mit 81 km/h angegeben. Wozu das geführt hat, seht Ihr im Video😂 drei schreiende Frauen, ob die Engländer sich gewundert haben? 🤪
      Was fällt Euch an dem vierten Bild auf?
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    • Day 5

      Chatsworth House

      June 9 in England ⋅ ☁️ 55 °F

      Chatsworth House is a stately home in the Derbyshire Dales. The estate is the seat of the Duke of Devonshire and has belonged to the Cavendish family since 1549. We enjoyed our tour of the home and gardens, although it was unsettling to witness the opulent lifestyle of the British aristocracy compared to the simple homes in the local villages.Read more

    • Charming Chatsworth & Bakewell

      June 16, 2022 in England ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

      Leisurely road trip today… 🚗

      We went to the beautiful & historic Chatsworth Manor Home. Well, it’s really a Palace. It has been in Pride and Prejudice series and movies. It is also featured in the Crown 👑 for the inside shots representing Buckingham Palace. We could see, feel, hear & breath the atmosphere. 🥰

      The gardens around it were spectacular and the inside was so opulent and palatial. It was a really hot 🥵 day today and walking around made us all extremely tired. It was actually uncharacteristically hot, so I was told. Unlike what I’ve heard and dread 😬 about Melbourne currently 😢😢

      We threw down a rug and had a lovely picnic in the gardens ☀️🌸 overlooking the house which was extremely relaxing and enjoyable. We collected delicious treats from Marks and Spencer and a homemade pork pie with chutney before heading to Chatsworth. Some facts: Diana Spencer’s Great, great, great, great aunt was a former Duchess of Devonshire and the current Duke and Duchess still live in this home. There is an eclectic mix of furniture within the house; period pieces are mixed with very modern Art and Bespoke features… Check out the amazing bed in one shot! They had to remove a window to get it inside the bedroom.

      Queen Victoria stayed in this Manor home twice, once when she was 13 and once when she was queen. Queen Mary has also stayed in the house. It was such a chilled out and relaxing day 🇬🇧🦆☀️

      On the way home we stopped at Bakewell which is famous for the Bakewell tart… I bought some to try tonight. I really enjoyed the flaky pastry tart with jam in the bottom of it. I also bought a treacle tart 😋 Bakewell is another historic town which is very cute but not as cute as Ashbourne in my opinion.

      I loved the ducks coming up to us while we were having a picnic and cheekily eating the sandwiches from my knees! 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆
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    • Day 46

      Chesterfield and Chatsworth

      October 8, 2016 in England ⋅ 🌙 11 °C

      My fancy bed turned out to be very comfortable.

      I headed into Chesterfield this morning.
      The main reason was to buy a small suitcase as my other one is getting rather full. I came across a Debenhams and found what I was looking for.

      Chesterfield is a market town and Fridays are general market day. The market took a bit of finding but I did find it. They weren't that exciting but it was interesting to read the history behind the market.

      Dominating the skyline is the crooked spire. It is the spire of the Catholic church. It was easy to find - just had to follow the spire. No one is quite sure why it is crooked - it seems to have rotated. The "sensible" theory is that the foundation of the spire was made of green wood that dried and twisted the spire.
      Two of the legends: one that Satan landed on the spire, the insense made him sneeze and the spire twisted. The other is that a virgin was married in the church and the spire bent to take a look, it couldn't stand back up straight. If another virgin was to marry in the church it would bend the other way and straighten up!

      The church itself was lovely, built along the lines of a small cathedral.

      The afternoon was spent at Chatswood - the home of the Duke and Duchesd of Devonshire. It is simply gorgeous.

      I toured the house first, my favourite room was the library. I could only look in from the door but would have loved to sit in there with a book. Seeing the bedrooms set up was very interesting.

      The house is very grand but the gardens are so much more interesting. I spent two hours there and only left because they were closing.
      I first did a tour which gave interesting information. Then I walked around. I found my way to the maze and eventually found the centre.

      Walking back to the entrance I could hear the sheep, it reminded me of being on the farm on chilly evenings when the sound of the sheep travels.

      I heard (on tv?) people say that the countryside smells. It does, which really surprises me, maybe there is a greater concentration of stock than we have, plus you are often driving over land the stock roams over.

      I had dinner at The Devonshire Arms. It is a very cosy pub, unfortunately all the tables there were reserved but they had a new section in which I got a table.

      The food was a lot fancier than it sounded.
      I had liver parfait to start with. I had to laugh when the only other people in the room (it was early) asked me what liver parfait was. I could only tell them I expected it to be like pate but lighter. I'm no expert, fortunately I was right.

      Main was gammon steak and fried egg. I've seen gammon steak and egg on a lot of menus recently so I decided to try it. It brought back memories of ham steak and pineapple rings that we used to get at the hostel, hence my hesitation. It was nothing like that. It was quite a thick steak of ham with a fried egg and then lots of fancy bits - dried radish and something else, potato gems (which was just weird) and 4 different "smears". It was nice though and I'd eat gammon steak again.

      Chesterfield market and market hall
      Crooked spire
      Church
      Chatsworth library
      Gardens
      Chatsworth
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    • Glamorous Gardens Derbyshire

      June 16, 2022 in England ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

      Not a lot to say but I was so impressed with the gardens today that I had to add more photos to fully recall & appreciate the beauty 🌸🥰❤️👑🌳🍁🪴🌷💐🍄🌻🌼☀️🍊

    • Day 3

      Day 3

      August 4, 2018 in England ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

      Today we took a break from walking and went sightseeing instead. Chatsworth Park was a stunning as ever, but having previously visiting the house we gave that a miss. Baslow was next on the list for a quick cuppa, strolling around the village whilst I reminisced about spending time here as a child when visiting Aunty May. We then went on to Bakewell where we both enjoyed some scummy Bakewell Tart – when in Rome...Read more

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