Tea time in the beautiful City of York

What better place to have an English tea then the beautiful city of York!!! With it's impressive cathedral,

Tudors style houses,


Little tea places,


and with a lot of shops selling my new obsession... cake stands!!

We went to Bettys a traditional tea room with a great ambiance. Not only for tea but for some great hot chocolate,

the full tea set,




and some super tasty sconesssssssssssssssssssssss!!!


yummy,


and on top of that a pianist playing some amazing songs,


that is tea time in York at Bettys,

What about PYO... Pick your Own fruits!

So! there we were going in direction to York when in the road we saw this sign:

and quickly we decipher it : PYO = "Pick your Own" in this case strawberries and raspberries. I had never done something similar so we stopped to enjoy the sun and some nice strawberries!

with a little plastic bag at hand.... ready set go!


there was quite a number of families with small children there :) If it is already fun doing it as an adult imagine as a kid! we did see some kids all covered in strawberry red :)

it was a pretty nice experience! just the smell of fresh fruit!! and the colors... and don't get me started on the amazing taste! .. yep they do taste pretty different from the supermarket ones :P

and here is what we collected!!!


yummyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

It was a really nice find in our road trip! PYO rules! need to find if there is something similar in Belgium :)

I've even found this cool website on how to find farms in UK to PYO!

Alice in Wonderland Amazing Topiary gardens!

I had never seen such an amazing topiary garden as this one! I really felt like Alice in Wonderland at the amazing Levens Hall Gardens in the Lake District!


its just magical! to be in a garden like this...

Simply Impressive!!!

The picture below reminds me of a garden coming out of a Jane Austen book! probably from Emma :)

I could have spent the hole day there! just wondering around and enjoying the view!



secret gates...


gorgeous!

"A grade I listed garden dating from 1694 – through a combination of circumstance and love the gardens at Levens Hall have survived in their original design. The topiary is some of the oldest in the world and justifiably famous. "

simply amazing! no words to describe it! :)

Edinburgh, Road Trip

In Edinburgh we only had the time to visit the Castle which is simply huge! it took us

almost all the day! But very impressive,

the tourist crowd now populates the castle... some hundred years ago was another story!

Impressive fireplaces,

incredible stained windows,


there is so much to see in this castle that you really need some directions!


After a lot of walking nothing better then a super tasty castle tea at the Queen Anne Café!


a very interesting pic I've found in one of the expositions!


Next stops previewwwwwwwwwwwwww

the! lake

topiary gardens

at the Lake District! :)

Scottish Borders RoadTrip!

In the next phase of our road trip we went from the Hadrian Walls in direction to the beautiful town of Kelso in the Scottish borders!
Equipped with our loyal Lonely Planet of Great Britain! Which gave us some suggestions of super nice places to sightsee on the way to Kelso.

First stop! The impressive Caerlaverock Castle

some very curios cows looking very suspicious to us :P


we can say the same about this mountain sheep!

Somewhere along the Northumberland National Park on the way to our next stop the Traquair House which is one of Britain's great noble residences that was constructed around 1107!

The Traquair House entrance,


Their amazing Maze!! I had never seem one as big as this!!!


it was a lot of fun to go around it :)


in case you got stuck... there was a special exit :)


The impressive Kelso Abbey,


Our second bed and breakfast! The Old Priory right in the middle of Kelso


It was a city B&B but really nice! I specially enjoyed the bedroom!


how nice is that dressing table!!


They had in the hall my favorite flowers peonies which left a really nice smell all around!


In addition to a nice room they have a pretty amazing garden!!!


The breakfast room was also very cozy!!


again as in the previous B&B they also have an impressive hutch!!


full with super cute milk jug's as this one,


breakfast table with a gorgeous garden view,


and a full English breakfast!!! What else can you ask for :)


Next stop!! in direction to Edinburgh!!!