Our coach pulled up outside a large visitor centre and our guide gave us stickers to allow us to visit Green Gables and the walks and farm buildings surrounding it. We went into the house first, which has been decorated, equipped and furnished as if Anne, Marilla and Matthew had just left it.
There were cakes just out of the cooker and the parlour looked as if they were expecting visitors for tea.
Green Gables was clearly a family home and it is easy to see how L M Montgomery enjoyed visiting it as a child. Her own home with her grandmother was relatively small and she must have spent many happy childhood hours at Green Gables. In the house are some main stairs to the bedrooms, where Anne's bedroom is as imagined by the author, with green curtains. Hanging up to the left of the curtains is a "brown gloria" dress, with puffed sleeves. It has been carefully arranged to look as if the fiction were fact, as indeed it is for many of us who have read and enjoyed the series of books based there.
After exploring upstairs we were directed down the back stairs and outside into the yard with the farm buildings, where there were refreshments including the delicious "Cow" ice cream. We all sampled blueberry flavour cones, which were enormous and enjoyed whilst we watched other visitors take it in turns to have themselves photographed wearing a straw hat and red pigtails next to a carriage. For me the greatest enjoyment of our visit to Green Gables would be the delightful walks surrounding it.
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