“Nottingham,” or, “Wayne Manor is a five-minute walk from your dorm”

I’m in England this week! Because how many other times in life am I going to have the opportunity to say “yeah, I went to England for Fall Break.” (Probably not many, so I’m grabbing the chance when I’ve got it.)
Anyhow, I’m here visiting Chase, because he’s studying abroad in Nottingham.¹
I’m actually not doing a whole lot while I’m here – I tend to prefer to just sit around and work on my own projects, or sit around and be lazy as my ‘vacation’ time. I spent yesterday wandering around the campus,² and today I’m hoping to find a coffee shop or something where I can just sit around and work on my laptop for a few hours.³
Sunday, though, Chase dragged me to a nearby park to take some photos, because he’s even more of a photography nerd than I am. It was pretty cool, though – turns out that the park has a mansion that served as Wayne Manor in the Nolan Batman trilogy.
What’s that? You want pictures? Alright, I can do that.

So, one of the things about the park is that it’s a big deer preserve… in the middle of the city. To get in, you have to go through a gatehouse that, based on the presence of boarded-over arrow slits, I suspect was built quite a while ago.

There’s something really funny about watching a massive deer wander along a path and then delicately duck under the fence.⁴

Heading up a hill, you come across the gardens of the Manor, which are, as expected, rather picturesque.

The manor itself has been converted into a bit of a museum – they have a few tours you can take, or you can just wander around for free. Quite nice.

I enjoyed the decor – just some casual tons of weapons hanging above your head as you walk in.

And we’ll end with this photo, because it looks really pretty.