We have to admit that all of us here (minus Mark and Alex which makes it just the three of us at the end...oh well) are big fans of Pride And Prejudice. The first time I watched BBC's Pride And Prejudice with Colin Firth was in 1998 with the young women from my church in Orem, UT. It was a six hour ordeal or something like that, a major sleepover at my YW leader's house with lots of snacks. I remember that night as one of the highlights of my foreign exchange year:). I had read the book before then in Russian but this was something new--Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.
So...
Fast forward almost twenty years later and we are here in England, passing through the Peak District which is where parts of the 1995 BBC Pride And Prejudice series were filmed. Therefore, we had to stop by and see if we can find Colin Firth strolling around. Besides, it was free to enter as it is a National Trust property:)
We grabbed lunch at Tesco before we parked and explored the grounds.
The kids ate their lunch and played for a bit (it was still so chilly).
I like funny hair/faces pictures:)
So the inside was very beautiful just like so many other estates. It's truly amazing that these buildings are preserved so well and that for filming movies they hardly have to change anything in terms of decor.
Mark working on a scavenger hunt type worksheet.
And chilling in the library nook reading some...Beatrix Potter books;)
This is what the Lyme House looks like today.
And this is how Elizabeth Bennet saw it when she first arrived to Pemberley.
It was impossible to avoid the crowd, so you get a few jumping Watsons with some random strangers. Yeah...my jump was lame.
Beautiful English garden:)
Here is another view of Pemberley, I mean, Lyme House.
And if you zoom in, you can see the real reason Katya didn't mind stopping by at Lyme House:))
After Lyme House we headed home! That was our last multi-day trip within England...
Lyana.
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