We are on vacation in England right now and I would like to take you on an early morning walk through the beautiful ancient village of Blockley. Blockley is located in the Cotswolds, an area quite famous for its outstanding beauty of the landscape, in the county of Gloucestershire in England, where we were renting a self catering cottage for a week. Usually we started the day with a healthy breakfast at our cottage but that morning we felt like having a traditional English Breakfast and decided to head out to the local village cafe and explore the village in a leisurely morning stroll by foot. The photos which are following I took on the way.
Leaving the cottage you step into a tiny but very lovingly planted cottage garden. The raised small terrace offered a very nice place to sit and enjoy the moment.
I especially liked this plant, I believe it is a Geum, which up to now I only was able to admire on photos from other garden bloggers.
Looking back through the garden gate towards 'Alice Cottage' to the right.
There was certainly no shortage of pretty cottages in Blockley.
Many of them build of the famous honey colored Cotswold stone that was quarried in the area.
Looking down the High Street of Blockley.
I love the climbing roses that were grown on many of the cottage walls. So pretty!
Here is a particular nice example of a climbing rose.
Looks like Mother Nature took over this front yard. All the rain that they have in England makes it possible that plants can thrive, even if they are not tended to by a gardener.
I loved the beautiful detailed stone work around the door.
Many people make an effort to prettify their cottages with plants grown in containers.
The Crown Inn & Hotel looks nice from the outside, but the dinner we had there during our stay was disappointingly bland and boring.
Cottage garden charm! There is hardly any space to garden in, but British gardeners work their magic anyways!
My husband noticed the planter to the left of the door and commanded me to take a photo. So I happily obliged.
This was my favorite scene from the High Street. The pink climbing rose is just amazing and it smells very strong. Unfortunately I don't know what variety it is.
I will continue the walk through Blockley in my next post. If you want to see more scenes from this lovely village and also what our traditional English Breakfast looked like, stop by here soon.
In case you have read my last post and wonder about the Doberman puppies. Two of them have been adopted out before our trip to England. We have decided to keep one puppy, and this one is very well taken care of by our wonderful dog sitters. Still, it was a little hard to leave her behind, but we have booked this vacation six months ago and didn't had one last year, so with a little heavy heart we decided to go. We see our puppy over FaceTime almost every day though, and she seems to do very well. It looks like that we miss her more than she misses us, which is a good thing.
Wishing everyone a lovely rest of the weekend!
Warm regards,
Christina
Leaving the cottage you step into a tiny but very lovingly planted cottage garden. The raised small terrace offered a very nice place to sit and enjoy the moment.
Looking back through the garden gate towards 'Alice Cottage' to the right.
Many of them build of the famous honey colored Cotswold stone that was quarried in the area.
Looking down the High Street of Blockley.
I love the climbing roses that were grown on many of the cottage walls. So pretty!
Here is a particular nice example of a climbing rose.
Looks like Mother Nature took over this front yard. All the rain that they have in England makes it possible that plants can thrive, even if they are not tended to by a gardener.
I loved the beautiful detailed stone work around the door.
The Crown Inn & Hotel looks nice from the outside, but the dinner we had there during our stay was disappointingly bland and boring.
Cottage garden charm! There is hardly any space to garden in, but British gardeners work their magic anyways!
I will continue the walk through Blockley in my next post. If you want to see more scenes from this lovely village and also what our traditional English Breakfast looked like, stop by here soon.
In case you have read my last post and wonder about the Doberman puppies. Two of them have been adopted out before our trip to England. We have decided to keep one puppy, and this one is very well taken care of by our wonderful dog sitters. Still, it was a little hard to leave her behind, but we have booked this vacation six months ago and didn't had one last year, so with a little heavy heart we decided to go. We see our puppy over FaceTime almost every day though, and she seems to do very well. It looks like that we miss her more than she misses us, which is a good thing.
Wishing everyone a lovely rest of the weekend!
Warm regards,
Christina
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