You’ve heard the phrase “go big or go home”? I’m sure it was the mantra of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild who built the utterly magnificent Waddesdon Manor in the 1870s. Yesterday we had a little […]
Category: National Trust
2018 Day 10 – Cliveden
Today’s plan was to visit Windsor, a short drive from Henley on Thames. The plan was a good one – get there early, secure parking and spend the day exploring. We succeed in the first […]
2018 Day 7 – The Jurassic Coast
Our journey east takes us via the Jurassic Coast which stretches approximately 150 km along England’s southern shoreline. Listed as a World Heritage site in 2001, it spans 185 million years of geological history across […]
2018 Day 6 – Corfe Castle
Well it’s finally beginning to feel like we’re on the road. Rain has suspended activity and the sun is out splitting the stones, as the Irish say. Time for our obligatory group shot, which is […]
2018 Day 5 Stourhead
Five days in and it’s official, the heatwave has broken. Rain has arrived and it’s here to stay. If we’re to explore Stourhead, a National Trust favourite, it’s going to have to be in the […]
2018 Days 2 to 4 – London to Exeter then Cornwall
Normally I’d write a post a day but let’s face it, the early days aren’t the exciting ones. Much better to wax lyrical over French farmhouse cheese, lazy days in the sun, English manor homes […]
2017 Day Ninety Three
And just for a change of pace (she said in jest) it pours. Not just any rain, but buckets of it. All the more reason to stay in bed, reading Black Rabbit Hall, my novel […]
2017 Day Eighty Five
We awake to rural scenes, having stayed overnight in the heart of story book pretty farmland. It’s rained most of the night and there are solemn predictions about it settling in for the week. *Sigh*. […]
2017 Day Seventy Six
And just like that, the weather gods decide that summer is done. To celebrate their decision, they’ve sent us a 15 degree, properly rainy day. It makes for a later start, but it will take […]
2017 Day Seventy Five
There’s much to be marvelled over and admired in the world of National Trust, but today we learn of a whole new level of dedication from the team tasked with bringing Uppark manor back to […]
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