Allons-y!

Chatsworth House

Our last breakfast at Losehill Hotel before driving back to Stafford. I miss the views and mehs already!

St Peter's Church in Hope.

Sorry but as a driver, I really detest sharing the road with cyclists. It's almost impossible to keep a 1.5m distance when passing cyclists in Singapore when there's cars in the next lane, which is almost all the time. Equally frustrating to drive behind cyclists on winding countryside roads and you'll just have to pray they are not heading to the same place as you.

Visited Chatsworth House on the way back.

This house is different from other heritage houses because the family who owns it actually lives in the house, just in a separate wing that tourists can't access. The Duke of Devonshire owns the estate.

Sculptures from Burning Man were on exhibit too. I liked this wind-powered flying(flapping) horse.

Entrance to the visitable wing of the house.

Sculpture by Damien Hirst (the artist who created that glass display of a shark submerged in formaldehyde) called Saint Bartholomew, Exquisite Pain.

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The sculpture stands on a round table which is scattered with the various tools that Hirst used to make the original work. Hirst has said his inspiration for the piece "comes from memories I have of woodcuts and etchings I remember seeing when I was younger. As Saint Bartholomew was a martyr who was skinned alive, he was often used by artists and doctors to show the anatomy of the human body and this is also what I've done. He holds his own skin over his arm and he holds a scalpel and a pair of scissors in his hands so that his exposure and pain are seemingly self-inflicted. It's beautiful yet tragic, and like Saint Sebastian his face shows no pain. I added the scissors because I thought Edward Scissorhands was in a similarly tragic yet difficult position – it has a feel of a rape of the innocents about it."

I am no art aficionado, and I am also not educated in this area at all, but I am just going to say what I think which is this ceiling painting is just as mindblowing as Sistine Chapel's LOL DON'T @ ME

The violin you see hanging behind the door IS ACTUALLY AN OPTICAL ILLUSION PAINTING!!!! I was so amazed.

Aren't they cute!

The house is believed to be the inspiration for Mr Darcy's house in Pride and Prejudice, and was also used to film the Keira Knightley film version of Pride and Prejudice. I haven't read the book so I don't know what's the hype about...