At the weekend, I took a trip up North to Leeds for a few
days with the girls. We hadn’t planned much for the weekend, so it was filled mostly
with catching up, watching re-runs of The
Valleys and a lot of eating!
Sunday morning we woke up thinking that we had to do
something “cultural” with our time in Leeds and Steph suggested Tropical World. I was initially sold,
mainly by the meerkats (I love a meerkat) and the butterfly house (Charlie and
Nat hate flying things, so the idea of them enclosed in with a load of flying
insects sparked the mischievous inside me). However we realised it involved the
effort of getting a bus so we gave up on cultural. So our next best ideas was
to do something that we do best….eat.
Where to eat was an easy decision – let’s go somewhere close
to home. And Steph came up trumps with our luncheon venue which was a stone’s
throw from her flat. Perfect.
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| picture from The Tetley |
So even though less than 12 hours beforehand we were
scoffing some dirty pizza in a kebab house, we headed to The Tetley.
It took my tired self a while to understand that this wasn’t
Tetley tea but Tetley as in the ale, and even longer to understand that this wasn’t
just a restaurant. The light bulb moment was when they offered a pint of
Tetleys and I thought that a pint of tea was a mental idea! Then it clicked.
What’s “The Tetley”?
The Tetley is ‘a centre for contemporary art and
learning’, housed within the 1930’s Tetley Brewery HQ. The building contains
art, culture, meeting rooms and galleries (which unfortunately were being refurbished
so we didn’t get our cultural again), all within a relaxed and open space.
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| Steph chilling and pretending to be intellectual |
