A Dirty Weekend in the Land of Literature

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A couple of weekends ago, after what felt like a lengthier than usual working week, we packed up the car and went on a spur of the moment Friday night road trip to pay a little visit to one of my oldest friends, Tom - unsurprisingly the brain behind the title of this post, it's also a bit of a long one, so i'd pop the kettle on!



With a sunny Saturday on the forecast and Stratford upon Avon, the home of the Bard himself, only a short car journey away, once everyone had got over the shock that I, the resident literature geek had never visited, we jumped in the Mini, and with the lovely Mummy Frost in tow made our way to the famous town.





Our first port of call was the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the RSC. Wanting to make the most of our day and with Dan in tow, who is, shall we say, a little less than enamoured with the grand old words of William, we skipped the afternoon performance of Othello and instead had a little wander around the theatre, battled our way through the crowds in the enormous gift shop and I even took up my rightful crown for a while... not an easy task to get me out of that one let me tell you...





We wandered through the little streets, admiring the beautiful tudor buildings and dipping in and out of shops to take a look at gorgeous homewares, plenty of antiques and a pitstop for some of the most amazing Salted Caramel gelato i've ever had the pleasure of eating.




While my all round blog photographer extraordinaire and lovely boyfriend snapped away (^ he was there, promise!), we took a bit of time out to get a bit regal...


And we found this foxy pair taking in the view and hamming it up for the tourists...


We obviously couldn't go to Stratford without a visit to Shakespeare's house, smack bang in the middle of the town, distinguishable by the gaggle of tourists gathered outside. You need only follow the shutter sounds and you can't go too far wrong. There was even an albeit slightly disturbing double of the main man himself wandering around... well, standing still really but hey, it all added to the atmosphere.




Dan become somewhat of a architecture pervert for the day- those beams though...


I even made time for a pitstop at Jack Wills, otherwise known as my own personal Mecca, to have a rifle through their summer sale and a peek at their new season collection, as always, theres some absolute gems. 




After an initial failed attempt at lunch (the less said about that the better...) we found ourselves in the most amazing tearoom - thats coming up in a post later in the week as it was too fab not to have a dedicated post all to itself. We finished off the day having a walk along the river, full of tea and cake and tired from a long day exploring and made our way home for a well earned gin and tonic.






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