England and Wales Road Trip – Part 2

Once I started to write a post about our recent trip to England and Wales, I realized that I would need to split it into two posts because there is just so much to cover there! So here you go – Part 2 of our England/Wales Road trip. And for Part 1 – click here.

WALES

After Cotswolds we drove to the North West Wales – where we stayed at Pale Hall for three nights. This was was super awesome – from grounds to the grand building, from delicious food to great service. We stayed at Victoria’ room – where Queen Victoria stayed for 10 days when she was visiting the area. They still have the bed frame from the bed she slept in – it was really cool sleeping in it but what would’ve made the experience even better would be if it was not full/queen size – I guess they did not have king sized beds back then:)

We had a couple of meals at the ‘casual dining’ Huntsman and an 8 course tasting menu and an afternoon tea at the Henry Robertson dining room – all were great!

Snodonia National Park is one of the biggest attraction in the area and we spent two days exploring it. We stopped by a tiny village of Beddgelert where we got delicious lemon merengue fudge (SO GOOD!!!!) and one of welsh traditional cakes – bara brith – also quite good.

We checked out an abandoned slate quarry, took a toy train ride around a lake, saw lots of sheep running around wild, checked out Conwy (lunch at the Signatures restaurant got top marks from us!) and took a walk along the Irish Sea beach.

And even though we did not have Welsh rabbit stew (apparently it’s not a thing there?!) we had a lovely time exploring this remove area of the country.

LONDON

On the way from Wales to London we stopped by Blenheim Palace and it was so worth a stop – this place was spectacular!

Because we’ve been to London a number of times before, we only spent two nights there and it definitely was NOT enough! We did have time to walk all over the place though – good thing the weather cooperated – and have a photoshoot there – more on that in a separate post!

I was looking for something very different for a place to stay and I found that in Chateau Denmark. This place is SOOO COOL – it definitely not to everybody’s taste (with its black and gold decor and funky art and room names) but we absolutely loved it!

We went to Trishna for dinner and it was THE BEST Indian food we’ve ever had – and we lived in India for a year so that’s saying something! It is not your typical chicken korma or murgh malai kebab – so glad we opened for a tasting menu so that we could try many things. Cannot recommend it highly enough!

One of my favorite food experiences was Borough market – I LOVE food markets and this one was awesome! I felt like I was in food heaven – sausage rolls, hand-raised pies, donuts, thai curries, fish and chips, cheeses and freshly baked bread – this place had it all! I felt very sad when I got full – so much food – so little time! If you are ever in London you gotta do yourself a favor and check out this place!