After living in Aber for a good 5 years and being a member of the National Trust for 2 years we thought we had seen everything in the close proximity. But no! For some reason our searches of what the hell there is to do here never brought us to Dinefwr! And there are 2! things there: A big historic house (where you can touch the furniture!) named the Newton House and castle ruins! Plus they are "known" for their amazing deer park (yes we saw them too) and White Park Cattle herd.
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| you can pretend to use that phone |
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| The servants quarters. They had the servants "talking" to each other in these rooms so it felt like you were listening in |
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| These chairs are so low down! Yes I tried! |
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| Pretty! |
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| The deer are just there behind the garden bit |
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| Wine cellar! |
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| Deer |
This is truly a hidden gem and we do intend to go back at one point, especially as they're supposed to be quite famous for their huge Christmas market which is set to be the biggest yet this year! (How have we never heard of it before?).
There is also a nice tearoom (expensive as usual) in the house where we had cawl, my kind of soup :D Mr. Special always prefers pureed soup without bits. It got relatively busy in the tearoom but on the estate the people kind of disappear in the vast grounds.
You do have to pay to get into the house and park. There are several walkways on the estate that we left to discover the next time and instead made our way to the castle ruins which was a bit of a walk away and not too well signposted because until the last minute really we thought that we're lost.
Until we got halfway up the hill and actually saw the castle in the distance and finally a sign that says castle this way! It took us through a forest, gave us a very magical feeling.
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| The view! |
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| You can walk the castle walls |
The castle entry is free of charge, but if you want to park your car in the NT park you have to pay the for it to them. I'm not sure if there's another car park nearby for just the castle as there are 2 ways to reach it, the other one without the magical forest.
Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...
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