Last week Ines and I were invited by a Company called ‘The Pink Pumpkin’, to venue showcase evening in darkest deepest Surrey called Burrows Lea Country House near Shere.
The venue itself is a stunning country house, set in the most gorgeous bit of countryside Surrey has to offer. Although not huge, Burrows Lea feels spacious, yet intimate, the decor extremely tasteful and the people very nice. It offers accommodation, features a non-denominational chapel for wedding ceremonies complete with in house registrars and has the most wonderful rose gardens with stunning and far-reaching views over the Surrey hills. I don’t think I have breathed air this clean in a very long time. Intoxicating indeed, who even needs champagne…what’s that? Have a glass anyway? Ah well, who am I to argue…cheers!
There was a summer marquee set up for a wedding reception, accessed through the main house and the candle-lit rose garden, with opera singers, wedding cakes, wedding dresses, chocolate fountains and wedding photographers.
Tucked away in the far corner of the marquee we spied a counter with an array of delicious-looking bite-size tasters, so we ambled over. This turned out to be an excellent decision. Behind said counter we found Aubrey Thomson, executive chef of ‘Young & Wild’ , ingenious wedding catering, and he was only too happy to share his palpable passion for his food with us.
We tasted and sniffed our way through spanish olive olive oil, truffle-infused pecorino (Italian cheese made from ewe’s milk, for the un-initiated), hazelnut oil, violet syrup, balsamico di modena, wild Scottish salmon tartare on pumpernickel and quails eggs with celery sea salt…and my personal favourite: Angus beef, seared to perfection, with tomato chili jam and…chocolate dressing. Yes, chocolate.
Inspired and…well, ingenious. A perfectly orchestrated assault on the senses, the fusion of flavours was a wildly sophisticated attack from all sides with no hope of escape for someone with an appreciation of good food. Like me. Just leave me here…or at the very least: I’ll be back!
Mike and I have been busy exploring new mountain bike routes . Last weekend we were over near Cold Harbour in Surrey to explore new routes around Leigh Hill . We had an exciting start to the day as we saw a horse minus rider at full gallop heading towards us. I suggest to Mike he look for the fallen rider while I chased after the horse, reason being I had a horse as a kid and my Dad has 3 of his own at the farm.
After about 20 minutes of calming the big fella down ,think he was spooked by the orange mountain bikers we came across we reunited horse and rider , she was complaining of a sore lower back but otherwise was fine.
Mike and I continued cycling down the end of Sandy Lane and then took the metal road to explore and Bridal Ways towards Leigh Hill, by the time we got to the climb of Leigh Hill I was too knackered and head of down towards the pub at Cold Harbour for a beer and lunch.
Plan of action “Get to the top of Leigh Hill”
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Tags: wedding co-ordination, wedding co-ordinator, Wedding design, wedding designer, wedding planner, wedding planners, wedding planning, wedding venues, wedding videos, weddings in London, weddings in Surrey, weddings in UK