We started our Sunday heading out to one of Lisa and Ben’s favorite pubs for a very British Sunday lunch. I had the roast beef with mash, vegetables, and Yorkshire pudding.
Cemetery next to the pub where we had lunch
House across from the pub where we had lunch
This phone booth has been turned into a lending library
We then headed off to tour Audley End House, a large early 17th-century country house outside Saffron Walden, Essex, England. It was once a prodigy house, a palace in all but name and renowned as one of the finest Jacobean houses in England. Audley End is now one-third of its original size, but is still large, at least compared with houses I’ve lived in. There are over 300 paintings, and a huge collection of stuffed animals, primarily birds (some extinct). It remains the family seat of the Lords Braybrooke, who have graciously loaned their collections. It is run by the Heritage Trust.
It turns out that touring country houses makes one quite thirsty, so we had to stop at another pub on the way home.
Ellen, Lisa, Indie, and Ben at the pub where we stopped afterwards
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LOVE that cemetery……..and even more, the phone booth. Looking forward to July 5th………ellie
are the people in costume re-enactors?
YUM! Did you know that popover dough is the same as that which is poured into the roast beef drippings for Yorkshire pudding?