The countryside of Derbyshire. The little cottages were so cute but I didn't get any pictures of them.We took a bus to Haddon Hall, which is a medieval building/castle that is lived in by some duke. It is SO cool and super old. It’s an Elizabethan Tudor Style building and was unlike anything we’ve seen so far. I loved it! We took a little tour through it and then went out into the gardens which were beautiful.
The Great Room inside Haddon Hall
Jumping for joy at Haddon Hall. We loved this door and just had to take some model shots in front of it. haha
The gardens were gorgeous!Some of the new Pride & Prejudice and The Princess Bride were filmed there and that was pretty sweet. In The Princess Bride it’s the scene where Prince Humperdinc (haha, I slaughtered that) makes his announcement, and then Buttercup comes out of the doors and the old lady starts to boo her. That is most definitely one of my favorite movies so it was kind of cool to see that.
This is supposedly the door that Princess Buttercup comes out of. It's in the inner courtyard of Haddon Hall.In Pride and Prejudice it’s the place where Elizabeth goes and stays at the Inn and sees Darci…I think…I’m having a hard time explaining that one but hopefully you know what I’m talking about. After Haddon Hall we had a sack lunch on the bus and went to Chatsworth (aka Pemberly in Pride & Prejudice). I was SO excited beyond belief because I have always dreamed and yearned of going there, but then I was slightly disappointed. For some reason I was under the assumption that it was going to be the Pemberly in the old Pride & Prejudice but it’s the one in the Kierra Knightly version. Wow, I am struggling thinking tonight so I’m sorry if none of this makes sense. It was still cool and super gorgeous but it was not nearly as fantastic as the real Pemberly from the first movie.
Pemberly!!!!! Also known as Chatsworth...in the real world. We had a while to explore the grounds/gardens and they were absolutely incredible, I thought. They were huge and we only saw certain parts of them but I loved what I saw. We went to a couple of waterfalls and tropical forest areas and I totally felt like I was in Hawaii or something. Some of the trails were hard to find though and we got lost a few times.
This was one of the cascades/ waterfalls. You could walk around in it and some nice old man offered to take a picture of us
We found some pretty cool trails through lots of forests. This one was on the way up to a tower on the hill. It was a pretty steep hike but the view was beautiful. Inside of Chatsworth was cool too. Chatsworth is owned by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and they currently live there today. You can tour the unoccupied parts of the house though. Amanda and I had the wonderful idea of getting audio tour guides so we could learn more about it but they weren’t very interesting. I did learn a few cool things that I otherwise wouldn’t have known though. Another thing I was slightly disappointed in was that part of the building has scaffolding all around it because they’re cleaning the stones. It really was still beautiful and amazing though and I feel very lucky to have been able to see it. We took the bus back to the train station at 4:45 and headed on back to London. On the way out of the station Amanda, Ashley, and I stopped at Subway for dinner because we wanted something fast and then we bought a few food items at the Tesco. I love Subway! It was kind of nice to eat something that reminds you of being home. One thing I’ve missed a ton is Mexican food. The first thing I want to eat when I get home is Café Rio! Anyways, sorry to get sidetracked…after eating we just tried to catch up on homework and packed up for tomorrow. We made a last minute decision this morning that we’re going to go to Scotland this weekend. I’m so excited! I think it will be way fun. Becca and Mallory have it all figured out already so all we’ll have to do is book some rooms for ourselves in the hostel. It should be good.
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