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Part two of our visit to @nttrengwainton garden! T

Part two of our visit to @nttrengwainton garden! There was more to see than just rhododendrons 😉.

I have a weak spot for walled gardens and kitchen gardens. I found both at Trengwainton. And an orchard too!

Bono found a complicated way to drink (because why would you use the water bowl provided?).

And we found some cute birds 🙂. I’m not quite sure what kind they are, but I think they’re the ones that can’t fly. Doesn’t make them less cute though!

Can you visit England without visiting a garden? I

Can you visit England without visiting a garden? I think you can’t 🙂!

It’s a bit trickier this time to find a garden, because not all of them allow dogs. But @nttrengwainton does, as long as they’re on a lead. There was even a cookie jar outside of the bookshop! That was highly appreciated by Bono 😉!

Generally, we experience the UK as a very dog-friendly country!

Back to the garden… it was lovely! 🥰 A lot of the (enormous) Rhododendrons were still covered in flowers. The colours are lovely and so was the smell of flowers!

The Cornish coast is dotted with the remains of ol

The Cornish coast is dotted with the remains of old mines. Up until roughly 1900 these mines produced copper, tin and arsenic (a by-product of tin). Rapidly falling prices for copper and tin caused the mines to close down.

The miners would work below the sea bed at a depth of 500m. Levant Mine (photos 3, 4 and 5) actually reached out for 2.5km under the sea, at a depth of 640m. Steam engines were used to pump water out of the mines. Imagine the working conditions at that time! There were no lifts to take the miners down the shafts, they would climb down ladders and a candle (attached to the helmet with clay) provided a little light. One wrong step and you’d fall down. A little draft and your light would be gone.

Men and boys (as soon as they were big enough) would be working underground. Woman and girls would work on the surface. A mine could have several hundred employees at high times.

The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape achieved UNESCO World Heritage Status. A lot of information can be found on the @nationaltrust website.

Oh, and did you watch Poldark? Then you might recognise Botallack (photos 1 and 2) as the Poldark family mine called Wheel Leisure in the series.

Today is our anniversary! ❤️ Today we have be

Today is our anniversary! ❤️

Today we have been together for 15 years and married for 7. 🥰 Yes, on the same day. To keep it simple! 😋

In the background you can see Botallack, a former tin mine on the north Cornish coast. More on that in a separate post! 😉

We arrived in #cornwall last Friday! We’re stayi

We arrived in #cornwall last Friday! We’re staying in Lelant, near St. Ives and that’s where we were headed on the next day.

We followed the #southwestcoastalpath St. Ives which took us about an hour and a half. The walk was lovely!

We deserved a scone with @roddas_cream #spoonfulofwonderful clotted cream and strawberry jam!

Next up was visiting the actual house and gardens

Next up was visiting the actual house and gardens of @ighthammotent …

The oldest parts of this house dat back to the 14th century. I always find it very special to be able to wander around places that are so old (and still standing).

The last person actually living here was an American businessman who named the @nationaltrust to be the next owner just six months before he passed away…

And as with most of these houses, there are beautiful gardens surrounding it 🥰!

Before visiting the house and gardens of @ighthamm

Before visiting the house and gardens of @ighthammotent we went for a walk on the estate. It was lovely! And the views of the #kent countryside were 👌🏻!

Another plant that’s in season at the moment is

Another plant that’s in season at the moment is wild garlic! We’ve checked that box as well ✅😀!

Bono checked it out as well! And he found out that his nose is sensitive to it… he had to sneeze all the time when he was near wild garlic 🙄.

We found this lovely patch during our walk at the @ighthammotent estate a few days ago.

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