We didn't make London, instead I took the girls to Saffron Walden. It's a lovely small market towns. It has lots of craft shops and foody shops, the market has an olive stall, cheese stall and a nice fish stall. I got the feeling the girls just wanted to buy food and take it home to eat! We did pop into a rather nice coffee shop with HUGE scones.
On to Audley End Manor. What you see to day is a third of what it was when built for Lord Audley.
The yew hedge is fascinating.
The stables are all that remain from the original monastic buildings.
The Walled Garden had a pond fall of newts.
I then took them to Thaxted. The church is magnificent and there was a wedding going on.....
It appears that the bridge and groom were attached to two different teams of Morris Dancers.
Dinner was at the Starr at Great Dunmow. I can't remember what the girls had for starters but I had Scallops and Serano Ham. For main course I had Dornoch Lamb and kidneys, Diane had Halibut and CP Beef. Diane and I had Cheese and CP some chocolate thing. Very nice
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Love the newt pond, also those yew hedges are pretty freaky. Great photos even with the "toy" camera. lol
I had the seared tuna. It was all lovely
I had the goat's cheese tartlet thingy with honey ice cream - it was definitely all very scrumptious.
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