Day 76 - Powys Castle

Yet another place we have intended visiting for some time is Powys Castle. Although in Wales we realised it's only 25 miles from where we're staying now. We awoke to a lovely sunny spring morning so after a leisurely start we headed west back to Wales.

I've taken a few photos but have a very poor Internet connection so will post them later, possibly not until we're home on Saturday

Ok, it's now Sunday and time to get posting again now I'm home with a good interent connection.  I'm getting addicted to the internet, I really miss it when we're away.  Anyway we had a great time at Powys Castle on Thursday. It has wonderful gardens although they will look better in another month or two.  There's not a lot in flower at the moment. During the winter you get a guided tour of the house, rather than being allowed to wander & that was really informative. It was a proper Welsh mediaeval castle bbuilt for protection & warfare but has been lived in continuously till 1952 when the National Trust took it over.  It was greatly updated in at the end of the C18th and in early 1900's and is quite sumptuous inside.  No inside photos were allowed so my phot of the day is of one of the peacocks.  This fellow was splendid and had a harem of three peahens following him around while trying to look uninterested at his displays.

Here also is a view of the castle from the gardens

and finally some cherry blossom. Spring has arrived!