AFTERNOON TEA AT DOWNTON ABBEY (HIGHCLERE CASTLE)
Join us in today's episode in which we're visiting Highclere Castle also known as Downton Abbey. We're strolling around the beautiful gardens and are having a traditional English Afternoon Tea. Oh my God, we are here. Lady Mary, we are coming. How stunning is this? Do you think Thomas will welcome us and offer us some tea even though he can be so nasty? We finally made it! I'm so giddy, I am so excited because - yeah - we we've rescheduled Highclere I think three times. And now it's finally happening. Yeah we made it. Yeah, I'm so excited to be here, to see the house like in the flesh is beautiful. Yeah. What's your first impression Joerg? Ah, it's amazing. It's beautiful. And we booked Afternoon Tea here as well. So that might be fun. Yeah, I'm
already getting hungry. And I already you know, I spotted the bench where they always sit, well, we will show you. And those of you who are fans will know what what I mean. So let's go have a look. We're going inside of Highclere Castle first because it's still early so probably less busy.
And we're not sure if we will be able to film in there, probably not. But we will try to film as much as possible of course. We just came out of the house and as expected you can't film in there - no - which is, well, very unfortunate but - yeah, we would have liked to show it to you. Oh yeah because quite frankly: How did you like the house inside? It was amazing. Yes! The rooms are so airy and let in so much light, the windows let in so much light. Yeah.
And the the size of the rooms, just stunning. Yeah and the staircase is really - something else - something else. It's really beautiful. Yeah. And by the way, I just, Joerg missed him, I saw Lord Carnavon - who owns this property - who owns the house and yeah he left in one of his vintage cars which was too funny. Yeah. And yeah, there's also the
Egyptian exhibition - because everybody should know the 5th Earl of Carnarvon - yes - was the guy who financed, let's say, um who was it Carter? Yes, Howard Carter. Howard Carter who found the tomb of Tutankhamun. Yes and some of you, if you're new to our channel, I lived in Egypt as a teenager with my parents for some years. My parents actually stayed there for 10 years. So
Egypt is very special to me. And yeah, this is the place - yeah - Lord Carnavon - he was - actually - was part of it - was involved. Yeah, part of the amazing story of a discovery. Yes. And if you're not sure if you should visit this place. You should. Yeah, come early - yes - so you will be the first in the house - yes - then you really can enjoy it because that's what we did - exactly. We sat on the famous bench that you all know from Downton Abbey. Yeah. And as for the rooms, we should mention which rooms from Downton Abbey you can actually see in the house.
So - you can see Lady Grantham's room - yes. Lady Sybil's bedroom -yeah. The room where Kemal Pamuk died or slept in - yeah. Then um - the big living room - yeah, the library - yes - the library. The dining room - the dining room and the beautiful drawing room - yeah. And of course apart from Downton Abbey other rooms as well which are beautiful. I mean there are several hundred rooms, imagine that. And there are also two I, I think one is a cottage and the other one is called lodge that you can book for a stay.
I will link it to you down below. It would be on my list to stay there with Joerg and because I think if you book a stay there, you might be able to enjoy the estate and have it to yourself like at least in the mornings and you can film a little bit and pretend to be Lord and Lady Grantham. I don't know. And there are also several events throughout the year and we noticed drinks on the bedside tables in the bedrooms so I don't know whether they have guests but that would be something. It's time for our Afternoon Tea so we're here, it's called the Coach House - yes - is that correct? We're at the Coach House and we booked one gluten free Afternoon Tea and one standard and we have something quite exceptional for me because I usually don't drink alcohol but we have champagne and I have a sip or two although I usually never have it. Why not.
This is Joerg's Afternoon Tea which well, you always start here with the lower tier which has got sandwiches, then some cakes and last but not least a scone. And this is the gluten free Afternoon Tea, sandwiches: cucumber, this is salmon, this looks like coronation chicken and this is egg mayonnaise. Yeah. I've got cake as well and a scone.
Whenever we go and have Afternoon Tea we never have anything else to eat apart from breakfast because - it's usually enough - it's too much. I'm going to try my gluten free scone now and I always do it the Devon way. This is the scone and I always put clotted cream first and then jam which always, it's a thing for debate on this channel because people from Cornwall would say 'do it the other way around'. This is just the way I prefer and honestly I don't really care whether it's Devon or the Cornish way, I just love it. And Joerg and I are German so it's fine. How do you like your scone Joerg?
I'll always do it the other way around. You, you do it - jam and then the clotted cream. See, that's good. So we have 50/50 on the channel - yeah - and you can't hurt anyone. Joerg is having my champagne and you can, you can see it on your face, be careful.
Joerg, we have to get home. Yeah, we get home. You know what? Maybe they have a room for us. We just stay on the estate and when they close the gate we're still here. So maybe we're lucky. I always think
the Cornish way looks so messy. No, it's the better way. Why do you prefer it? Because the cream is more delicious then. You might recognise this 'Help our hospital and you are helping our boys at the front'.
Wasn't that used in one of the series or one of their Downton Abbey Specials, the films? I think it was. If you want to have some peace and quiet book a late Afternoon Tea. Ours was booked for a quarter to four and now we are the only ones here. It's actually really nice. And that's the Rolls Royce by the way with the Lord in it. He's driving, he's driving off. We're quite full from the Afternoon Tea - yeah. How did you like it? It was good. It was good - yeah. I would have loved to have it here on the lawn. Yeah with a view of Downton -
of Downton Abbey - or Highclere Castle. Yes, that would have been smashing. So there's room for improvement. A little bit yeah. Maybe we have to give a kind of suggestion to the Earl of Carnavan. Who we saw again, he was standing next to his vintage car. Yes, they are really nice. Yeah and one of them is a Rolls Royce even if let's say the figure on the front
is a jockey on a horse. Is it? Yes, it's not the usual Emily. Oh. So that must have been from one of the former - yes - earls. Yes it said the car had it has an interesting story. Yeah. It was built for the 6th Earl of Carnavon - yeah - and then it was sold to a,
to somebody in Denmark. Right. And then the Danish guy sold it to a German guy and the German guy sold it back to the 8th Earl. Yeah. Wow, that's funny. Or maybe they tried to, to like hunt it down to get it back. I'm not so sure because the 8th Earl is much into old cars. Yeah. And the interesting thing, is says the number number plate - yeah - because the number plate is the, was the old telephone number of Highclere Castle: H204.
We have to go home. Yeah. It will be around between, three and a half to four hours so yeah. But it's worth it. It's so worth it. So - so the day was just amazing. I think even if you haven't watched Downton Abbey, you will love this place. Yeah, yeah no. It's wonderful. The building
and the house is really really interesting. And if you are a fan of Downton Abbey, I think you will love the house even more. Yeah. Because the rooms, I honestly, I didn't expect them to be that beautiful. And we think it's always so nice coming back - yeah because there's always something going on here. Yes, for example this weekend they've got a concert - yeah -which is like the Last Night of the Proms where they play all this kind of old songs like 'Rule Britannia and I think 'Land of Hope & Glory'. So very very British. I bet that's amazing - yeah. I mean with the house in the back
and there's just, they're currently setting up the stage. Yeah. Obviously the house isn't open every day but there's just, I think what would be amazing would be to see the Christmas decorations. Yes. The only sad thing is, you can't film it. But I think it's a wonderful experience. Yes it is. So I think this wasn't our last time so. We'll see. I can't wait for the new film to come out. I just love the series, I think it's so well done and yeah. We hope you liked the video and
we'll see you again next time. Take care. So yes, take care and see you soon. Bye. Bye, bye bye. The Earl is coming back. I don't know, is he coming back, is he driving off? He's just making a drive by. Is that the same Rolls Royce - yes- we had we had on our wedding day? A similar one yes. Yeah gorgeous, I love it. There's one thing we want to do before we leave. Well, we left the Estate, the Highclere Estate and parked here at a car park which leads up to Beacon Hill. I hope this is
the right way. It's supposed to have a wonderful view towards Highclere Castle. And yeah, I'm a little bit out of breath because it goes all the way up but it's good. after all that Afternoon Tea stuff. So you need to walk uphill for quite a bit and now we'll see. We're at the top of Beacon Hill now and this is Highclere Castle but we're not sure if it really comes across on camera but you can clearly see it and there's also another folly over there so it's nice coming up here.
So if you're fine with walking uphill for a little bit, it's definitely worth checking out because there are no people up here and yeah, now we can go home. Well, we have to go home unfortunately. There are several walks around the Estate. You can find them on the Highclere Castle website so that's probably really nice looking into. And I hope you can hear me, it's pretty windy up here. Yeah, so that's it for today and we hope you liked the video and stay tuned for more and yeah, until next time. So, see you soon. Bye.
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