Waffles, Sunshine (at last!) and Roman Flooring!

What a lovely way to spend a sunny Saturday morning.  We met at The Waffle House in St Albans for brunch.  It was simply scrummy!  One of our favourite foodie places for brunch - delicious! The choice of waffles is wonderful and some of us chose sweet waffles (me included of course!) and some opted for the Big Breakfast Waffle which looked amazing - and apparently was.

All were soon devoured, mine with lashings of maple syrup.  Brunch was full of chatter and we talked about past and future events.  Helen and I filled everyone in on how wonderful our Paris trip was.  We soon created a list of places to schedule weekends way - so the diary will be filling up fast!  I'm excited to start researching new adventures.  Thank goodness for a sunny afternoon, my new garden and an iPad!

Following brunch we took a stroll across to Verulamium Park.  I was ashamed to admit that despite going to Laughs in the Park last summer, I'd never wandered around the park or explored the Roman ruins.  We had a quick peek in Inn on the Park, which I've booked for a future event.  Its so cute, has a great function room (I've booked it - woohoo!) and a lovely menu.  I'm really looking forward ti visiting properly  - and to checking out their cream teas!

We strolled along through the park following  the signs to the Verulamium Museum (St Michaels, St Albans).  Having already decided enroute that I was arranging a visit to the museum, to ease my guilt of ignoring our own local history, I was delighted to be greeted by very helpful and welcoming staff.  The museum has loads going on, so we shall be scheduling a visit very soon.  Why I wonder, do we spend so much time visiting new places when travelling and visiting new places but we fail to go to places on our own doorstep?

We left the museum with a handbag full of 'whats on' and 'local attractions' leaflets - can't take me anywhere, and headed back to the park and the sunshine.

It was so beautifully warm, following all the much needed but hideously un-spring like rain that we have been subjected to recently.

Following a signpost simply labelled 'mosaics' we crossed the park in the sunshine with no real clue as to where we were going.  We reached a building which housed some beautiful mosaic's which  were the remains of the floor of a Roman villa.  The villa is believed to have had over 30 rooms.

Maybe its something that happens as you get older but I am excited by history.  I'm in awe of how people in years gone by created these wonderful buildings, designs, structures etc without all the technology we have today.

The mosaics we calculated (ok Helen, calculated - me and numbers - not a good combo!) to be nearly 2000 years old.  To think that once where the park is now stood Roman Villa's.  I'm so looking forward to going back and expiring further.  Its wonderful and its on our doorstep.