We've become National Trust members. It feels good now that when we plan our Sunday trips we just have to worry about petrol and not entrance fees if we want to visit estates.
Our local National Trust site is pretty ace. It isn't just a nice house with gardens, it's set within huge woodlands so I get my tree fix as well as an amazing walled garden which is currently oozing with veggies and flowers.
After a tour of the walled garden and orchard, which I can't wait to see in the autumn, you leave behind all the day trippers who are busy with picnics and house visiting and enter the countryside.
Mark said there was something prairie like about the scene we were greeted with after the lake disappeared behind us so I edited it to make it look even more like the set of Waltons!
We did the long walking route through the woodlands to get away from the more adventurous day trippers (we are social beings really!). The woods gradually become more coniferous and I felt like we had really got away from it all as we walked.
We found a funky shelter full of felled trees which got the toddler who adores climbing very excited and then headed back through more calming scenes of the coniferous kind.
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