Everyday Adventure for This Week - Harewood House

This weekend we found a most excellent Everyday Adventure at Harewood House.  Built as an estate of the upper class in the 1600's, today it is an amazing space that includes incredible landscaped gardens, a bird sanctuary, and a beautiful house renovated to the times of Lords and Ladies.  We spent several hours there and couldn't get to see everything, but thoroughly enjoyed the gardens especially.  I am sorry in advance for the photo overload, but there was a tremendous amount to see.

Locals note: This is a quick trip - about 15 minutes from Harrogate. The price to get in is somewhat expensive (15£ per person), but it's worth it on a sunny day with enough time to see everything.  We didn't regret it at all!

The back gardens...looks like a movie set, right?

Front of Harewood House

The formal terrace gardens

The bird gardens included penguins, flamingos, and other exotic birds!

This is P about to walk into the walled gardens...where they had tons of vegetable and flowers! The best were the artichoke!

After the Walled Gardens, we walked through the Himalayan Gardens...they included this amazing water feature over the creek

We enjoyed one last view of the garden terrace before we left.  What a beautiful, beautiful day