We spent the day at Cliveden, a National Trust property in Buckinghamshire. Although the house isn’t open to the public the gardens are and we had fun exploring them. First of all we visited the Water Garden and climbed over the huge stones. Then we tackled Cliveden Maze. It has over 1,000 two-metre-high yew trees and 500 metres of path, and the picture below bears no resemblance to the actual maze!
We found the center and the way out just before the children ran out of steam. There were lots of muddy puddles which made the whole thing more fun.
Then we visited the Storybook Play Den which was filled with carved wooden models of favourite storybook characters. Big Brother loved the turreted house with slide, based on the famous ‘Magic Tree House’ stories, whilst Little Sis liked the ‘Wind in the Willows’ style boat.
When they had run off their energy we stopped to look at the Doll’s House Café which was housed in a really lovely cottage. It was too early for lunch but they had a fantastic little area full of colouring and activity sheets and the children were really happy to sit down for a while.
We picked up the scooters again and explored more of the grounds. There were trees to be climbed and leaves to be collected.
We walked over to the Orangery cafe where we had a lovely lunch before stopping to admire the amazing views from the South Terrace and take a ride on the South Terrace Slide. Only Little Sis and Daddy were brave enough to ride on the slide but it was so good they went twice!
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Love Cliveden, we are not far from there. Haven’t seen the storybook den before though, is it new? Time for another trip I think! The slide is brill, although my heart was in my mouth watching my little one whizzing down it at top speed! #countrykids
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