One day we visited Stourhead. We were hoping for a good day, weather-wise, for walking and taking photos. The weather turned out to be very mixed.
Stourhead is a 2,650 acre estate at the source of the River Stour, Wiltshire. The estate includes a Palladian mansion, the village of Stourton, gardens, farmland and woodland. Stourhead has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1946.
| Stourhead House | Iconic view |
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| View ruined by rain – |
Like all the grand families of the time, they were great collectors and one of the greatest treasures of Stourhead is the Pope's Cabinet - a jewelled cabinet that was built for a 16th-century pope which has been restored at a cost of £50,000 and is now on view to visitors. The cabinet, which is 13 feet tall and is made of marble, alabaster and semiprecious stones, resembles a baroque Roman church and was owned originally by Pope Sixtus V.
Maya and Norman came to the caravan for a meal. They have very recently moved to Street (of Clark’s Shopping Village fame). We visited them later in the week. Sue managed a trip to the shopping village while Norman and I shifted a small shed.
We had a lovely day with them - thanks.
| We could walk into parts of Longleat and the meerkat enclosure was one of them. They run around your feet, so you have to be careful not to step on one. |
On another day we went to Bath. We parked at Bath P&R and took the bus in. Unfortunately we ended up at the hospital (my fault). We eventually arrived at Bath centre. Sue tackled the shops and I did some geocaches.
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| Colourful pig by the Abbey |
| The Royal Crescent Bath is a residential road of 30 houses | Houses on the hill, |
We came back from Longleat two days early. The forecast for our last day at the site was ‘rain all of the day’. We decided to come back two days early, but we will go back because it is a lovely site.
One of the rainy days.
Oldie Photos
| 1981 - Stuart’s Mum at the Florian Turm, Westfalen Park, Dortmund |
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