14 January, 2012
As a reward for all my hard work sitting on my ass in Gabon, Cath and I took the first weekend I was back off and headed into the midlands to a spot she had heard about where the rooms are built into the side of large trees. Its called Sycamore Grove and while quite overpriced for what you get, certainly is a novelty and a great way to chill and slowly acclimatise to traffic, people and cooler weather.
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| Listening to the cows eating from the balcony (with no curtain) | Front door into bedroom |
I just wanted to add some pics of our room here. The tree house is built on stilts and is double-storey. The bottom floor has the bedroom with little balcony overlooking a field of cows and the berg in the background, and the upper floor has another balcony and a Jacuzzi bath and shower.
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| Narrow spiral staircase heading upstairs | Small wooden cabinet. Even the hinges are solid wood! |
I think I have met one of the clumsiest girls ever as, in the space of 5 minutes, she attempted to open the bedroom curtain with a little bit of a flourish and pulled the entire curtain off the rail, opened the small door onto the balcony by breaking the wooden door lock, returning into the room from the balcony hooked her foot in her carelessly discarded bag and skidded across the bedroom on her face, and finally while sending a text message on her phone to one of her friends somehow (inexplicably) managed to stab me right in the eye with her finger! This girl needs corks on the ends of all her kitchen knives!! Being the gentleman that I am I assured her I would never make mention of her propensity for disaster to the readers of my blog…
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| Upstairs towards upper balcony | Jacuzzi bath – couldn’t get Cath to pose naked in the bath… SO reserved!! ;-) |
We did have a great weekend with good weather without humidity in the upper 90% and I even disclosed my big geek secret of being a Geocacher to her which we did for most of the Saturday, and she was politely supportive and appropriately enthusiastic. Just how much of that was politeness with a smattering of pity shall remain to be seen…
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| Geocaching next to a railway line | Lunch break in Notties |
From one jungle to another, or perhaps a circus! We were just missing the sawdust ; )
ReplyDeleteLooks idyllic!
ReplyDelete"Di di diddle liddle li di di di..." (circus music) You were the star of the clown show - normally reserved for me with my many years of experience. You did me proud, though! ;-)
ReplyDeleteWas very cool, mom. Very different, and a great place to relax with no noise (save for grass-munching cows...)