Window at Blickling Hall

Blickling Hall is a stately home in the village of Blickling north of Aylsham in Norfolk, England, that has been in the care of the National Trust since 1940.

Lucky for us Blickling House was open today otherwise we may have been enforced to stay at the cottage because of the bitter cold today. We bypassed looking around Blickling gardens and decided only to venture into the house.

It was really interesting how the rich lived in their hayday but I would not like to be a servant, they surely would have earnt their bread and gruel. Talking of food, we finished the day in the restaurant with a piping hot bowl of carrot and orange soup and crusty bread and victoria sandwich cake with real jam and cream filling, really good.

After Blickling we went onto Holt. That is a nice place with many shops of the type we like. We would have liked to stop for longer but the biting wind got the better of us and it was good to head back to the cottage and get the woodburner roaring again. That will soon beat the cold out of us once more!