Another lazy Sunday! After spending most of the day at home on Saturday (mainly due to being boring and the fact that Rob was ill), I had to get outside today even if it was absolutely freezing. We decided to check out one of the parks around Manchester, after some snowfall on the surrounding areas of Manchester. As usual there wasn't any snow in the city itself, except for the 20 minute snow flurry on the drive to the park.
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| Snow on the car windscreen. I thought it looked kind of artistic. |
We ended up going to Lyme park for a wander round in the snow and to take some photographs. Rob wanted to capture a close up of a deer (which I thought would be unlikely), however as it is winter all the deer were locked away and the deer park was closed to the public. Oh well. At least I got some nice shots, which you can see below.
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| Snow in Lyme park, a pretty looking tree! |
Everyone else seemed to have the same idea and were in Lyme park enjoying the snow. There were loads of people sledging. It was quite funny really, as there was only a couple of inches of snow, so after a few people had sledged down the hill, they'd taken the snow with them so the other people were actually sledging on the mud. Good times!
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| Selfie in snow, nice and cosy with my fluffy hood! |
Overall, we were only in Lyme park for about two hours. We followed a road at the back of the main car park, as when we have been there in the past we always walk out the front of the car park towards the lake, so I thought we would try something different. We strolled along a path, through a valley with people sledging on either side and ended up in some woods (where we were stalked by a crow - it was a little creepy, until he was scared off by a dog. Hehe!) before coming out onto a snow covered field. It felt like we had walked quite a bit out of the way, so we asked some people which direction the main car park was in. The guy informed us that we could get to it by following the road in front of us. It turned out the car park in question happened to be ten meters down the road. He must have thought we were idiots! Embarrassing or what!
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| Rob getting in the way of my photo! ;) |
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| Rob contemplating life. |
As we had ended up back near the car park we wandered up to the main house, up some really, really muddy stairs and nearly got ran off the path by some little kid just barging past us. I guess he was so excited by the snow he didn't care about anything or anyone for that matter!
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| Old car outside the house at Lyme park (with a snowman photobombing my shot!) |
Lyme Park overall is a nice place for a wander round in both the summer and the winter (it's probably good in spring and autumn too ;) ) and offers special events and things to do in the house, as whilst we were there you could meet the make up artist for a TV show called the village. This was not something that particularly interested me. Parking however is very expensive (£7!) but it is the same with all national trust places. Therefore if you spend most of your time at national trust site you should probably get a membership (surely it must save you money in the long term, :)).
Enjoy! Get outside and explore!
Sam x
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| Smiley!! :) |
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