So a long long time ago we thought we'd visit Powis castle and long before that Llanerchaeron.
I wish I could show you lots of pics but for some reason I've been so lazy at taking pics :( So I've searched and searched through my computer and decided to show you basically all of the photos I've taken :D
So first the hidden gem near Aberaeron: Llanerchaeron! And when I say hidden I really mean it since there is no sign at the last turn so Mr. Special literally made a snap decision this is it!!!! and nearly missed the turning downhill. My heart stopped thinking the next time I open my eyes we're in a bush next to the road... but no luckily he can drive and after a couple of minutes worrying we turned way too early (we were between fields :S) we finally noticed the fancy fence and soon after signs for the entrance and parking (which was surprisingly busy).
It's like an 18th-century Welsh gentry estate with an amazing garden and huge pond :) Now this is the kind of house I maybe want in my dreams :D a bit more realistic than the castles I usually dream of ;) For kids there is a spot the pig game in every room and I must say from the second room onwards I was hooked! The first thing my eyes searched for was the pig hidden somewhere.
The outside was even better I think with like a woodland park surrounding the huge pond and next to it a walled garden with beautiful flowers, mini-ponds and obviously their own vegetable patches. But the best thing about the garden was the kitty!!! Oh he was so lovely! So nice and cuddly! I think I spent hours there just petting the cat. Then when we made our exit we had to go through the farm part of the estate and saw turkeys running around and pigs :)
Turns out I don't have any pics at all :( but google it :D
Anyway a couple of days later the three of us went to Powis castle about an hour and a half drive from Aber. My friend was spending her last days in Aber before moving back to Estonia :'( And since she's never really been out of Aber during the four years she lived here we decided to go somewhere further than just Ynyslas (where we've been a couple of weeks ago).
The thing that won my heart with Powis castle was the garden again! I just wasn't expecting that! It was huge and nicely maintained, just wow. The castle was amazing too obviously! They had volunteers in every room and the first one who greeted us really got into character and treated us like guests attending the dinner party. That whole volunteer aspect of the castle really helped us know more about its history and little details that we normally would not even had thought about. So more volunteers in these huge castles! Btw one funny detail: the volunteer said there was a lion carpet on the floor whereas it was clearly a tiger :D Yes we debated about quite a while (not with the volunteer obvs) while just admiring the carpet and deciding we'd never want a huge head (be it tiger or lion) on our floors...
It's like an 18th-century Welsh gentry estate with an amazing garden and huge pond :) Now this is the kind of house I maybe want in my dreams :D a bit more realistic than the castles I usually dream of ;) For kids there is a spot the pig game in every room and I must say from the second room onwards I was hooked! The first thing my eyes searched for was the pig hidden somewhere.
The outside was even better I think with like a woodland park surrounding the huge pond and next to it a walled garden with beautiful flowers, mini-ponds and obviously their own vegetable patches. But the best thing about the garden was the kitty!!! Oh he was so lovely! So nice and cuddly! I think I spent hours there just petting the cat. Then when we made our exit we had to go through the farm part of the estate and saw turkeys running around and pigs :)
Turns out I don't have any pics at all :( but google it :D
Anyway a couple of days later the three of us went to Powis castle about an hour and a half drive from Aber. My friend was spending her last days in Aber before moving back to Estonia :'( And since she's never really been out of Aber during the four years she lived here we decided to go somewhere further than just Ynyslas (where we've been a couple of weeks ago).
The thing that won my heart with Powis castle was the garden again! I just wasn't expecting that! It was huge and nicely maintained, just wow. The castle was amazing too obviously! They had volunteers in every room and the first one who greeted us really got into character and treated us like guests attending the dinner party. That whole volunteer aspect of the castle really helped us know more about its history and little details that we normally would not even had thought about. So more volunteers in these huge castles! Btw one funny detail: the volunteer said there was a lion carpet on the floor whereas it was clearly a tiger :D Yes we debated about quite a while (not with the volunteer obvs) while just admiring the carpet and deciding we'd never want a huge head (be it tiger or lion) on our floors...
The castle and the forecourt
There were two or three peacocks just running around.
One of them was admiring its reflection from the mirroring signs :D
A view downhill from the castle
The garden part which is like on terraces downhill from the castle.
The second terrace/level had a little rose house :)
View to the castle from the furthest point of the estate
There were winding labyrinth style paths in that "shrubbery" on the right side of the hill :)
Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...
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