Saturday was a good day!

Last weekend was rather good - actually it was excellent. We spent it in the little village of Bonsall in Derbyshire - our home for a couple of days was on the upper floor of a converted stone building with a rather interesting history. It has been storage for the pub, a function room for dancing in the 1800s, a meeting place for the home guard during WW2 now a holiday let upstairs and a deli shop and tea room bakery below.

We'd visited Bonsall last year during the well-dressing and loved the quirk-ness of the village. The residents must love living there as there is a very strong community spirit and it shows.

We walked miles around and through the village - the place is rich with history and in places I felt like I was walking through treacle - I could almost taste the past. Sunken lanes, lynchets , barns, ghost signs, stone walls, clog worn stone steps and drovers tracks.

We also visited Wirksworth - definitely a place that needs further investigation - again lots of very visible history - so much to see.

Matlock and Matlock Bath, who have been places to visit for hundreds of years thanks to the naturally warm spring waters - although both interesting were a bit too touristy for us, so we did a cursory explore then left to........

...investigate Cromford.

Much less commercial and in places still very run down and in desperate need of rescue - but wonderfully interesting and bursting at the seems with history. 

By the end of Saturday we were definitely 'walked out' but had had a brilliant time. Time to return to the apartment and meet up with Eldest and his lovely girl who were joining us for the evening.

Post Script: mini adventures are amazing - they can fill your weekends with so much colour and inspiration! I took soooooooooooooooooo many photos that it got a little silly.....

Have you had a mini adventure recently? I hope so 😊