After a gentle amble round the country roads and footpaths near our holiday cottage, we headed after lunch to Felbrigg Hall. Its walled garden is one of my favourite places to visit, with everything from a cottage-style garden of intermingled vegetables and flowers to olive trees and a dry, 'desert' garden.
The tulips were going over a little, but this is how I like them - wild over-blown, rather than upright and stately.
There were irises in an array of colours
Olive trees growing in pots against a brilliant blue sky gave the outdoor cafe area a Mediterranean feel.
I've long wanted to explore the wider parkland, so after a small snack we headed down towards the lake, through a pleasantly cool wooded area.
This isn't a long walk but we'd tackled it in the wrong direction, against the arrow routemarkers, which led to an amount of confusion, and by the time we were heading back from the lake I was getting tired and hot, and thought it might be possible to take a short-cut directly to the House and car-park. Sadly, this proved to not be possible. A fence cut across the direct route and we had to go round via the church anyway. I'm not defeated though, and next time I'll know where I'm going, and perhaps even explore further round the park.
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