A Delightful Break With a Local Flavor in St Albans

If you’re look­ing for a short (and why not long?) break from Lon­don, St Albans and Hert­ford­shire make a per­fect choice.

Indeed, the his­tor­i­cal town of St Albans and the sur­round­ing coun­try­side have a lot to offer, as I recently expe­ri­enced dur­ing a lovely blog trip I’ve been invited to by Andy Jarosz.

Together with 4 of my favorite Euro­pean blog­gers, we’ve been won­der­fully dri­ven through this enchant­ing area and our jour­ney was spiced up by a very pleas­ant local fla­vor.

We started by enjoy­ing a walk through the awe­some Veru­lamium Park, stand­ing on the ruins of the Roman city Veru­lam. The splen­dors revealed by archae­ol­o­gists, on top of all the won­der­ful and finely
com­posed Roman mosaics, can be admired in the Veru­lamium Museum, a lit­tle jewel well worth a visit.

We’ve been led through the most impor­tant mas­ter­pieces of the Museum by Eliz­a­beth of St Albans Tour Guides, who pro­vided us with very inter­est­ing insights on the archae­o­log­i­cal site and mosaic tech­niques spiced up by a lovely sense of humor.

Since we all had a very early wake up, use­less to say that we were starv­ing! We thus headed toward the ‘Waf­fle House ‘, where we had a deli­cious lunch. The Waf­fle House is a piece of his­tory, being located in a 16th Cen­tury water­mill very well pre­served. Def­i­nitely a place full of charm and a good choice to stop for lunch, din­ner or sim­ply a drink.

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