This came a little late but for my 18th my gorgeous boyfriend bought us a trip 'up country' to go to Longleat and London. Surprisingly despite being infactuated with animals, this was my first trip to Longleat, so automatically before even going it was the most perfect present!
As you can imagine I was like a little kid again, being picked up after college and getting straight to the road to travel up to his mum and step-dads house. Needless to say I was excited for our first independent road trip especially as it was a gorgeous afternoon to travel.
We spent a lovely evening celebrating mine, Harvey's and his mums' birthday with late presents, balloons, and cake before I was eager for bed ready for Longleat the next day.
Longleat opened at 10am so we made sure to leave plenty of time to get there at 10am on the dot (which we did!) and still it was very busy full of over excited little ones (including me) and frantic parents. Every sign post counting down the miles got me excited, despite being lost in the midst.
We had mix reviews whether to go to the Longleat house before the safari or visa versa, and chose the Safari first as after all was the main reason we were going. Harvey did say that the monkey safari was closed, whether that was a little fib to keep his Golf in tact I'll never know, however it was open and we did go through it (and the Golf survived!) Every time a monkey seemed remotely interested in the car we did speed up a little and I could see the look of relief on Harvey's face as we exited the monkey enclosure without a scrape.
My favourite enclosure on the safari without a doubt were the Lions, so much in-fact I bought a lion teddy after a long while choosing (I'm 18, it's still allowed.)
There must have been at least 20 lions, most which were rather tired and did nothing but look cute and sit there with their eyes closed, which still was such a lovely experien
ce, I've also decided that one day I will see Lions in their natural habitat, whether it kills me (or my bank)
After the safari and the hundreds of animals roaming around the car, we went to Longleat park, which is where a lot of the smaller animals were as well as the reptiles. I think my most favourite part about Longleat was the fact you could walk through the penguins, one of which (called Sherbert) had a strange love towards my Hollister cardigan (which now has holes in.) Their enclosure was huge with an outside and inside and underwater part. Seeing them play and happily swim around was so lovely knowing that they're in a open space rather than in a small area in a zoo.
I'll insert a few more animal pictures as that's what I'd be more interested in if I was reading this...
I also did something which I never thought I ever would. Me being me, afraid of most insects and of course spiders actually held a tarantula.. Picture proof. I was reluctant to hold anything too small as in my mind the bigger the spider, the better it could be. It's more like a little mouse than a spider, however it was a little smaller than I thought it would be so it was very scary...
Then after seeing as many animals as we could within the day, we went to look around the Longleat house which was undeniably beautfiful! The gardens themselves are huge and there's an optional scenic walk which you can go on (If you have time that is!) The house was huge and included a lot of history inside, written and shown. The ceilings were so detailed and every room was different in terms of the way it was presented. Luckily my boyfriend has a canon photography camera so he took so many photos which I can keep for memories and show on my blog (All of these are his photos, I cannot take any credit of that)
After the house we found a maze which was supposedly meant to take 20 minutes, however took us 7. Probably because Harvey and I are masterminds when put together...
Overall I had the best weekend with the best company and I'm a very lucky girl!
*Photo creds to harvey*
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As you can imagine I was like a little kid again, being picked up after college and getting straight to the road to travel up to his mum and step-dads house. Needless to say I was excited for our first independent road trip especially as it was a gorgeous afternoon to travel.
We spent a lovely evening celebrating mine, Harvey's and his mums' birthday with late presents, balloons, and cake before I was eager for bed ready for Longleat the next day.
Longleat opened at 10am so we made sure to leave plenty of time to get there at 10am on the dot (which we did!) and still it was very busy full of over excited little ones (including me) and frantic parents. Every sign post counting down the miles got me excited, despite being lost in the midst.
We had mix reviews whether to go to the Longleat house before the safari or visa versa, and chose the Safari first as after all was the main reason we were going. Harvey did say that the monkey safari was closed, whether that was a little fib to keep his Golf in tact I'll never know, however it was open and we did go through it (and the Golf survived!) Every time a monkey seemed remotely interested in the car we did speed up a little and I could see the look of relief on Harvey's face as we exited the monkey enclosure without a scrape.
My favourite enclosure on the safari without a doubt were the Lions, so much in-fact I bought a lion teddy after a long while choosing (I'm 18, it's still allowed.)There must have been at least 20 lions, most which were rather tired and did nothing but look cute and sit there with their eyes closed, which still was such a lovely experien
ce, I've also decided that one day I will see Lions in their natural habitat, whether it kills me (or my bank)
After the safari and the hundreds of animals roaming around the car, we went to Longleat park, which is where a lot of the smaller animals were as well as the reptiles. I think my most favourite part about Longleat was the fact you could walk through the penguins, one of which (called Sherbert) had a strange love towards my Hollister cardigan (which now has holes in.) Their enclosure was huge with an outside and inside and underwater part. Seeing them play and happily swim around was so lovely knowing that they're in a open space rather than in a small area in a zoo.
I'll insert a few more animal pictures as that's what I'd be more interested in if I was reading this...
I also did something which I never thought I ever would. Me being me, afraid of most insects and of course spiders actually held a tarantula.. Picture proof. I was reluctant to hold anything too small as in my mind the bigger the spider, the better it could be. It's more like a little mouse than a spider, however it was a little smaller than I thought it would be so it was very scary...
Then after seeing as many animals as we could within the day, we went to look around the Longleat house which was undeniably beautfiful! The gardens themselves are huge and there's an optional scenic walk which you can go on (If you have time that is!) The house was huge and included a lot of history inside, written and shown. The ceilings were so detailed and every room was different in terms of the way it was presented. Luckily my boyfriend has a canon photography camera so he took so many photos which I can keep for memories and show on my blog (All of these are his photos, I cannot take any credit of that)
After the house we found a maze which was supposedly meant to take 20 minutes, however took us 7. Probably because Harvey and I are masterminds when put together...
Overall I had the best weekend with the best company and I'm a very lucky girl!
*Photo creds to harvey*
