Lanhydrock

We visited Lanhydrock today, a magnificent late Victorian country house with 49 rooms, extensive servants' quarters

and gardens on a wooded estate. Not sure what impressed us most - the open-hearth spit in the kitchen that once cooked entire cows, or the enormous, shaped topiaries that sprout up like asparagus in the front garden. Lunch consisted of english sandwiches (egg salad

and watercress, with a scone and clotted cream chaser...yum, and so low-cal, uh huh).

We returned back to the cottage late afternoon to enjoy a pitcher of Mother's Little Helper: Pimm's