Our plan, throughout these two weeks with Penelope, was to stay in Caravan Club campgrounds (we are members). No wild-camping with The Precious. The next such stop was at Longleat, once a great house, and now a great house and adventure/safari resort. We had the four of us visited Longleat back in 1989, before it was Disneyfied. My chief memories were of the Maze and the pet cemetery, both of which are still there. But they are joined now by the Monkey Temple, the Jungle Cruise, the Hippo Mud Baths, Stingray Bay, Gorilla Island, Adventure Castle, and of course the Safari. Fortunately, Penelope is too young for any of this, and we arrived after closing anyway. But she did enjoy playing in the water park and later feeding the deer. And we could hear the seals barking well into the night.
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| The resort complex |
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| Adventure Castle |
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Absolutely the largest childrens' RR I have seen; even a
round-house |
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| Ticket complex and asphalt maze |
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Happily, the great house is still there, in case anyone is
interested |
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| Nice one, too |
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| Pet cemetery; well, half of it |
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| Historical touch |
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| Thus |
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| Back to reality, however |
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At Longleat, Penelope demonstrates proper two-year-old
form for eating a peanut butter sandwich |
1 comment:
We love all the photos of the great houses. We will get there one of these days!
The photos of Penelope are precious.
Somehow I did not know (or maybe remember)that Rebecca had studied at Oxford.
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