Charlecote Park

Since we bought an annual membership to the National Trust we decided that we are going to try and visit a house every month throughout the year.

In March 2014 we visited charlecote park. it is a huge manor house located just outside stratford-upon-avon. The house dates back to the 16th century and is surrounded by its own deer park. In addition to this it is located on the banks of the river Avon

Here are some pics...

Upton house

Continuing with the national trust theme, I thought I would do a blog post on everywhere we have been to over the past year.

In january of 2014 we visited uptown house. it is a house that was bought in the 1930s by the owner of shell oil. Parts of it had been transformed into very art deco type rooms i.e the bathroom covered in silver paint. Whereas the other rooms had just been maintained as they were when the house was bought

Here are some pics...

Coughton court

As I am back in school now I only have time to do short blog posts until the half term holidays, so here are some things that we got up to earlier in 2014.

Earlier in the year we went to cough ton court as a family. As the house is owned by the national trust,  it has been preserved and represented as it was in its heyday. 

the house is amazing and very opulent.

here are some pics...

Waterskiing at the ferrybridge

Last week we went to see water-skiers at the ferry bridge near portland. It was great as it was very windy so there were lots of windsurfers. It looked like great fun and they were reaching very high speeds considering how close they were to the water edge.

Here are some pics...

London

Earlier last week I visited my uncle in London. It was the first time I had ever been to London and it was amazing. We tried to fit in as much as we could into the day that we were there and visited harrods, fortnum and mason, liberties, downing street, buckingham palace, Leicester square, and trafalgar square. overall I had a great time and would love to go back for longer to explore even more of the city.

Here are some pics...

 Inside a shop that sells macaroons, it is located in the Burlington arcade opposite Fortnum and masons.

This diamond necklace was in a shop on bond street. it measured in at a whopping 45 carrots and had 

a price tag of £750,000 !!!

The facade of Liberty's London.

 The central foyer in Liberties London.

As featured on the TV channel QUEST, Drew pritchards shop in Liberty's London.

The Lego bus shelter located outside the world famous Hamleys toy shop.

 The facade of Fortnum and Masons London.

 Iconic theatreland sign in Leicester square.

 Iconic sign marking the location of Trafalgar square.

 Nelsons column in Trafalgar square.

 Entrance gates to the Mall leading to Buckingham palace.

the world famous Elizabeth tower of which the bell named Big ben is located.

A guard standing outside 10 Downing street.

The sign marking the entrance to Downing street.

 The gold plated sign outside the cabinet office, Whitehall.

 A glimpse of the shard in the distance.

 the London eye with the shell oil headquarters in the background.

The mall looking down towards Buckingham palace 

The London eye from Westminster bridge

The shadow of the London eye reflecting on the Shell oil headquarters.

The entrance to Chinatown.

The sweeping staircase inside Fortnum and Masons.

Blog update

Sorry i haven't posted for a few days. i have been very busy as i have been collecting my GCSEs exam results and so was unable to post online. I will make up for this by posting more posts than usual for things I've been upto recently :)

durdle door

A few days ago we went to Durdle door. It was unbelievably busy and we have never see anything like it. There were so many people that they looked like ants. This is near the site of a huge landslide that occurred 2 years ago yet now all of the stones have been washed away by the tides and currents around the area.

Here are some pics below...