We just got back from our trip to the UK. We planned a "I really want to do that before a die" trip. Bo wanted to see Stonehenge and I wanted to visit the homes of some of the Bloomsbury people.

Our first stop was in Firle, Lewes to visit Charleston farmhouse the home of Duncan Grant, Vanessa and Clive Bell and their kids.

It was something really surreal, taking a step into their living quarters all left intact. We were only allowed guided tours on Saturday but I didn't regret that really. It was lovely to be in each room with a group of six people and to be told about these fascinating people. It was such excitement to enter a room that each time I gasped. Especially when we entered the studio of Duncan Grant, it made the others giggle. It was just so beautiful and so weird I almost cried.

The stone construction around the fireplace above were set up by Maynard Keynes. Charleston used to be a very drafty house and this was the only way to keep the fire going. The painting in the oval circle used to be the home of a mirror.

After Charleston we drove to Monk's House in the village of Rodmell the home of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. The National Trust only left the downstairs rooms as they were when Leonard and Virginia lived there and the upstairs rooms are tenanted by patchwork artist Caroline Zoob and her husband.

This is one of the rooms dowstairs painted by Virginia in a beautiful green color with fabrics designed by her sister Vanessa Bell.

Caroline and her husband also maintain the garden of Monk's House and Leonard's vegetable patches. They also sell the tickets and the booklets in the main entrance in the beautiful conservatory.

There is something so fun about visiting other peoples homes. Some may call it curiosity I call it interest, finding new inspiration. It was a most special weekend.