Sunday, May 07, 2006

Woburn Abbey

We spent yesterday in and around Birmingham just taking it easy. Saw Mission Impossible Three (it was not the best movie!).

Today we decided to head out for the day. Peter was coming back to Southampton with me so that he could look at a couple of houses with Suzie, so we all decided to head out and Jules was going to get the train back to Birmingham from wherever we ended up.

We decided to head down towards Woburn Abbey and grab some lunch along the way. We ended up in some uninspiring pub with food that I cant really remember, so it must not have been that great!

We then headed down to check out the Abbey. We arrived quite late so we could not go around the Safari Park. In fact we just had enough time to check out the house. As with similar places it was grand and full of expensive furniture, but not really a place that you would like to live.

We then went for a bit of a walk around the grounds which were lovely, but it was cold so we decided to head off.

We dropped Jules off in Milton Keynes (which was unlike any place I have seen in England) and then headed back to Southampton.


A pond in the grounds.


The House


The grounds


The house and grounds.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The pub was pretty uninspiring, but it was the Red Lion at East Haddon - we ate in the cellar.

I should point out that the purpose of the day was to scout locations for wedding locations. But as usual, everything took too long and we didn't get much done.

Apparently they invented the afternoon tea ritual at Woburn Abbey!

One of the things Justin's pictures failed to display was the huge herds of deer on the estate. There were litereally hundreds of deer, just wandering around doing their thing.

It was such a strange sight, but if you put the deer and the grounds and the house together it really did feel very English - you could imagine a time when much of the countryside did indeed look like that.