Tuesday was our last full day in England. We enjoyed a buffet breakfast in the medieval lodge that morning. Complete with a giant tray of… you guessed it - baked beans, mushrooms, and stewed tomatoes.
We left our car where we’d parked the day before when we went to the castle and we thought we’d understood that we were supposed to leave our car there. But then that morning Matt said “it looks like the Americans didn’t understand where to park.” 🤣
We had about a 45 minute drive to Cadbury World where we saw Frances St. 🤗
And also this fun shoe exhibit. 🤷♀️
When I bought our tickets it was much cheaper to pick a specific time, so I did and we had some time to kill before our tour time.
Matt says when you visit Cadbury you should take care to match their decor.
We were able to catch the 4D Cadbury experience before our tour time and it only slightly made us feel sick.
We also grabbed a quick pic with Freddo, only because no one else was around. 🤗
They gave us each 3 Cadbury bars and then we walked through the history of chocolate.
There were some games to play.
A lot about the history of the Cadbury family.
And their tea and chocolate shop.
A good year for Cadbury Milk and the Ray family!
One of our favorite parts of the tour was when we got to play with chocolate.
They made sure to tell us several times not to eat the chocolate because they reuse it. Enough said on that one!
They gave us 60 seconds to draw a self portrait.
Of course Adi’s was amazing.
At first Delaney and I didn’t have enough chocolate in our bottles. Then my bottles lid popped right off, you can see my globs and how it looks like I wrote Mr. Michelle. 😂
And Matt’s weird hieroglyphic guy.
We rode the chocolate ride that was cute and silly. It was a lot like the chocolate experience at Hershey Park.
We got a small cup of warm milk chocolate and we got to add 2 mix ins and it was weird but tasty.
A few more games, including a boat delivering chocolate game that we tried so many times to finish but never could.
The girls had fun jumping around these interactive games.
We bought a few souvenirs and then we were off again.
We had a 2 hour drive back up towards Manchester in preparation for our flight home.
We thought it would be nice to enjoy being outside and hiking since we had a long day of flying coming up.
So we went to Peak National Park and hiked the Mam Tor Ridge Walk.
I was already physically super tired. 2 1/2 weeks is a long trip and after the boat we were somewhere new each night.
We hadn’t eaten lunch and we didn’t bring our water up and I honestly didn’t feel great. We sat and enjoyed the beauty for awhile so I could feel better.
It was really beautiful and the ridge walk is long, it would be so great to hike the whole thing.
There were also lots of little trails branching off the ridge walk that would be so fun to check out.
Cairns were part of the girls camp theme so adi and Frankie were excited to take loads of pictures of all the cairns.
It was nice and cloudy, so not too bright, but also not cold.
So beautiful. It was really amazing to be outside and enjoying the beauty of rural England. It is actually about an hour outside of Manchester. So nice to get out of the city and into this beautiful space.
Pano!
We hiked to the first far peak and then turned around. We spent a few hours out there.
We grabbed a snack as soon as we got to our car and then had a harrowing drive - small lanes, hilly, and v curvy to the Huntsman Inn which was so cute and homey.
We ate dinner in the Huntsman pub and it was pie night, but I’m not sure what that meant because they didn’t have any additional pie flavors. I went with the cheese and onion pie and I was not sorry about it.
We all showered, got checked in for our flight, and repacked our bags to even them out and make sure none of our suitcases would be overweight.
I’ve been using Hotels.com to find places to stay in Europe and though we’ve had a few fails, or at least places we wouldn’t recommend, for the most part we’ve really enjoyed our lodgings.
We also were able to coordinate with Amy’s Uber driver who had contacted our air b&b owners to track her down and return her phone. Since we were a ways outside of Manchester we decided to meet him at the rental car return the next morning. Honest people are the best.
We had a 2 room suite which was nice, but also Delaney ended up staying up way too late listening to her audio book and then didn’t feel well for our travel day. We had a lovely stay at the Huntsman and highly recommend Peak National Park. ❤️
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