He's Quite Dishy!

Today all my girlish hopes and dreams were fulfilled! I went to the home of the one the only Mr. Darcy…well one of them, Wilton House was used for the filming of Pride and Prejudice and his the real home of the Duke of Pembroke. He’s quite dishy, said our excentric bundle of joy tour guide…I really felt like a PC because we got had a private, before they opened tour…thank you D Brooks! The building was beautiful, and the interiors lavish, full of adornment and house to the famous cube room…what never heard of it…yeah me either, and I’ve studied this shiz for 5 years, it’s a perfect square room and next door is the double cube room…good guess that would be two cubes together…making a perfect rectangle esk room, very nice! They were very nice actually, and full of massive family portraits and adornment of gold carvings! And what I loved the family pictures, and yes, the Duke, is quite the catch…if my luck hold strong, still single, at least till me meet! Outside were some simple gardens all with beautiful manicured lawns and the greatest Pallidian Bridge, with a peaceful river running under. In the tea room, we enjoyed fresh strawberry lemonade and pastries…and off to my favorite London past time…GIFT SHOPS- at the shame of my Mother, I quickly became known for being the first in the gift shop and the last out! You taught me well mom! I got a really great paperback book that tells all the different locations Jane Austen novels made into movies have been filmed.
Next on our agenda…Salisbury Cathedral…tallest in the country. The spire was not building itself was not actually meant to hold the weight of the massive steeple, but because of great restoration and some incredible engineering, it’s been standing these hundreds of years. Our tour started in the building were we were told in depth the great history of the building, this had to be the best look into all that makes up a cathedral. One of my favorite tid-bits of info…there are these markings on the stone and we found out they were put their as a check of for the masons to know if their work was sufficient! There was also this spot that the famous choir boys use as initiations and bang their little dumb head on the stone…well after so many years it’s now indented…ah smart ones! The cathedral has a great space inside that wraps around creating a courtyard…framed by beautiful stone pillar with quatrefoil motifs! Next we went up and up and up the spire! Some 300 feet up. We walked a gallery where you can look off down at the people below in the cathedral, then up onto of the fan vaults, this was so interesting to see the bones and to realize what the technology and manufacturing tools were that they were using. We went higher still to the bell tower, where on the hour we heard the bell…while right next to it…ah check that off the bucket list…well add it first ! Then up and up again, up the spire where the very rough structure of the steeple was exposed to see. Absolutely breath taking views of Salisbury…what an amazing experience to see the structure of such a monument.
Run, Run, Run…fast as we can…to Stonehenge! We grabbed a cab and rode though fields and hills till we reached the middle of nowhere … where the hedge calls home…it’s a mystery how they got them there…the middle of nowhere, but the stone is really cool-theirs a blue to it and it’s constantly warm! This is one of the oldest structures of our civilization…amazing, where talking really old…5,000 years. That’s one thing that amazes me is how much older everything is that I’ve seen this trip, in America it’s only as old as our country…which is young in their book!
It really was spectacular to see, they were beautiful and out all by themselves with the grass and the brush, the clear blue sky in the background, it was spectacular. They weren’t as large as I thought, but I did learn that they are dug down in the ground. That’s how they have stood for so long.
Funny story, Stonehenge was one of those generic wall paper that just happened to be on my computer at home as a kid, so seeing it in real life was really quite spectacular…one of those moments that I realized just how amazing this whole trip is and how much I’ve seen!