I am sure you will be delighted to know that this is the last of my Christmas Charm & Historic Halls posts for this year.
I can’t quite believe that we visited nine different places full of Christmas trees … over the course of just a couple of months. Eight were National Trust properties … so I think I can say we had great value from our membership last year.
Having taken mum to North Wales for a few days mid-December we managed to fit in a visit to Penrhyn Castle in Bangor to see what they had going on.
We have visited Penrhyn at Christmas before and, whilst only the ground floor of the castle is open at this time of year, it’s still a nice thing to do on what actually turned out to be quite a bright day for December …
Thanks for following this series of posts … I promise there will be no further mention of Christmas trees until at least November 😜
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What a gorgeous place the castle is. Is it medieval? It is magical watching children being read to, isn't it. I catch sessions sometimes in my local library and the children are absolutely captivated and completely silent. I think it must be something very old in the human psyche - back to the days when we sat around fires at night storytelling! x
ReplyDeleteIt is a brilliant castle. Very ornate in places. It has a long old history but was owned by the owners of Penrhyn quarry. The story teller was fabulous. Her voice was almost hypnotic … very soft with a lovely Welsh lilt. She sang and spoke both in Welsh and English which was lovely and gave me chance to practice listening in Welsh. I am trying to learn as we spend so much time over that way and where we are most people do speak Welsh so it’s nice to be able to converse just a little bit 😀
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