Brideshead Visited
August 13th, 2010 , 21:06
So yesterday at some point we saw a leaflet about Castle Howard and Friend said ‘oh, they filmed Brideshead Revisited there and I’ve always wanted to see that!’ So we got up and had a leisurely breakfast, got the car and drove up to Castle Howard. Learned a lot about the Earl and Countess and the house and saw the rooms where the show was filmed. We started by walking along the walled garden, then into the fountain garden (Atlas Fountain) and along that garden, then into the special exhibit and then into the house. It’s a lovely house and lovely gardens and we spent the morning there.
We then got back in the car and headed for the moors. We drove the main road through the Yorkshire Moor park – through Hutton le Hole and the Ryesdale museum and along top of the ridge. It’s the same route we took on our holiday earlier in the year, with about the same weather – rain. It was bit a harder rain and much much windier and foggier. We did get some nice views, but it really wasn’t worth stopping. So we did a circle tour – up through the moors, then down by Whitby and Scarborough, and back over to York.
Once back at York and parked, we had a bit of a rest then off to the pub over the road for dinner. Lovely dinner – Gillygate pub. Now to sleep and tomorrow back down to London probably via Lincoln but we’ll see as we go!
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