A little bit of Hull

The hubs and I had a lovely weekend. We mostly relaxed but also managed to go to the Hull Real Ale and Cider Festival. It was held from Thursday til Sunday this past week and we managed to squeeze two visits in, we went on Friday evening to meet up with some of Sibz work friends and we returned on Saturday to use up our last couple of tokens (you had to buy tokens beforehand and then use them to buy your drinks). It was held at the Hull Trinity Church, its such a beautiful old building! Although a part of me was a bit skeptical about having an ale festival in a church it seemed to go really well from the short time we were there. And I finally managed to get to see the mice in the church! 

We were walking around the church on Saturday looking at all the details in the stone and woodwork (and I was trying to find the mice) while we had a drink and S stumbled upon this in the gifts section, as we were paying for it I asked the lady if she could point me in the direction of the mice around the church and she kindly called her husband over who gave us a tour of all the mice (well except one as it was being used during the festival) around the church. If I remember correctly there are 8 of them throughout the church. He also told us about the local craftsman George Peck who carved all the wooden figures on the pews, all of them are different (and there are a lot of pews!) and at the time they were considered pagan because of some of the images. It was all so interesting, Im really glad we finally went, even if it took the ale festival to get us there.

Sorry about the bad quality of photos, they were all taken on my phone. The above photo was actually a self portrait of George Peck playing his violin. 

And finally when we got home I baked pecan pie. I haven't baked a pecan pie in what must be close to 5 years! It turned out really nicely (other than my burning the top a little) and my husband loved it! 

xo Kristy

Our Easter/anniversary weekend

Its been far too long since I last did a post! I've been neglecting my blog! My hubby and I got back from South Africa/ Dubai/ Wales about two weeks ago and we have just been getting back into the hang of things in the UK and were also prepping for our anniversary trip, which was this past weekend! We have been married for a whole year already! I can't believe how quickly the time has gone, I am so blessed to have such an amazing man in my life!
For our anniversary we decided to go to London, I already feel incredibly spoilt and overwhelmed with all the traveling we have been doing lately, so it was really awesome to have the opportunity to go away again so soon after our last holiday!
We left on Friday morning and arrived in London at about midday, we headed straight to our hotel to check in and drop off our bags and then we jumped on another train to Oxford. Oxford is so beautiful! We definitely could have spent the whole day there but we planned it poorly and had to rush to walk around and see as much as we could. And to top it off I wasn’t feeling myself so didn’t enjoy the walking as much as I normally do. Anyway, besides everything else it was still a really great day!

The next day we headed to Brighton, I have wanted to go for a good few months but between it being so far away from Hull and my hubby not being too keen on going it was never a priority. But with it being just an hour and a half outside of London I managed to convince my hubby to go and we had a really good day walking around and sightseeing. We managed to see the Lanes, The Brighton Pier and Royal Pavilion. Sibz and I were quite amazed by the pavilion, so much detail in everything although we thought it was a little too over the top and from the the walkthrough audio tour it sounded like King George IV lived quite a depressing life especially towards the end, just goes to show that money cant buy you happiness. 

We had fish and chips on the pier for lunch and on the way home picked up some gelato from the lanes, which was delicious!

For our anniversary we booked a table at Heston Blumenthals restaurant, it was a big splurge but it was delicious and both my hubby and I enjoyed our meal! I finally got to try frogs legs and they were really yummy!

On our last day we squished in The London Tower, The National Gallery and we went to St. Paul's Cathedral, we didnt actually go into the cathedral though as we were rushed for time by then. It was definitely an awesome and memorable anniversary and Easter holiday!

Hope everyone had a happy Easter!

xo Kristy