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What I did on my Unbirthday
Mar. 4th, 2012 03:50 pmWellinghall & I have made a trip to Castle Combe http://www.castle-combe.com/ to mark my Unbirthday today. We originally planned to do this on the day itself, this afternoon, but on seeing the weather forecast on Saturday morning (today: bright sunshine and warmth! Tomorrow: rain, wind, hail, sleet, possible snow!) decided to go then and there, and to spend today sitting inside watching the weather instead.
Castle Combe is quite ridiculously pretty - all mellow cotswold stone cottages, so untouched by the C20th it looks and feels more like a film set than a real village (and has been used as such repeatedly, most recently for Warhorse. They had display boards up in the church about WWI on the strength of this). We had a bit of a potter around, but the main reason for the trip was tea at the Manor Hotel. This was proper tea, with silver-plated knobs on. Finger sandwiches (ham, egg, cucumber, smoked salmon); scone & clotted cream; a scone-sized spiral of lemony bread; sticky toffee cake (tasted like sticky toffee pudding but a cake-like texture); banana & mango cakey-type thing with a sponge base & mousse topping; a raspberry & macadamia & chocolate thing that looked just like a Cadbury's mini-roll, only plain chocolate & with sprinkles on top; and a raspberry tart.
We had skipped lunch in order to have room for all the above, and decided afterwards we couldn't manage more than a token supper either.
ETA: and we watched Stardust in the evening, because parts of that (the scenes in Wall) were filmed in Castle Combe. And because it's a fun film, and we felt like it.
Castle Combe is quite ridiculously pretty - all mellow cotswold stone cottages, so untouched by the C20th it looks and feels more like a film set than a real village (and has been used as such repeatedly, most recently for Warhorse. They had display boards up in the church about WWI on the strength of this). We had a bit of a potter around, but the main reason for the trip was tea at the Manor Hotel. This was proper tea, with silver-plated knobs on. Finger sandwiches (ham, egg, cucumber, smoked salmon); scone & clotted cream; a scone-sized spiral of lemony bread; sticky toffee cake (tasted like sticky toffee pudding but a cake-like texture); banana & mango cakey-type thing with a sponge base & mousse topping; a raspberry & macadamia & chocolate thing that looked just like a Cadbury's mini-roll, only plain chocolate & with sprinkles on top; and a raspberry tart.
We had skipped lunch in order to have room for all the above, and decided afterwards we couldn't manage more than a token supper either.
ETA: and we watched Stardust in the evening, because parts of that (the scenes in Wall) were filmed in Castle Combe. And because it's a fun film, and we felt like it.
