Exploring the Area

Or finally, a decent place for breakfast!

Just down the road near where Warnie lives, a new bar has just opened up. It is called Pitcher and Piano and it looks pretty cool. So we decided to go there for breakfast this morning and it was pretty nice (although they were a little slow). So finally, a decent breakfast place close by.

After that we decided to head over to Salisbury (see previous post) to look around one of the EH properties there, Old Sarum. It is basically a ruin of a Norman Castle and it was quite interesting.

Then we decided to head over to Old Wardour (another ruin), but along the way we passed Wilton House, the home of the Earl of Pembroke. It was open to the public so we headed on in for a look around. The house, like most of these places, was impressive but gaudy, but the yards were very nice.

After that we headed out to Old Wardour, a ruined house from the English Civil war. Now this was very impressive. A lot of the walls were still there and you could take an audio tour around it. It was quite impressive.

On the way home we stopped in a little town called Rockbourne to grab some dinner. The pub was fantastic. It was lovely sitting outside next to a thatched building. The food, service and ambience were all great! A good finish to the weekend.



Old Sarum



And Again....



Where the Cathedral use to be



The Walls



A posh bridge at Wilton House



Wilton House



The river in the gardens



Jules and I



Old Wardour (yes there is a New Wardour as well)



The surrounds



Stairs to nowhere....



More Old Wardour



And again...