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England continued

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(It is always a privilege to travel with this always "sunny" lady) (Bodnant Gardens - Conway area, Wales - are beautiful, and in spring should be magnificent) (Main house on Bodnant Gardens compound) (Pictures above and below fascinate us) As you now know, we became members of the National Trust and visited many a castle, manor, park and gardens. All of them have a story. To avoid telling too many and therefore fastly creating boring snippets, I am taking the opportunity of telling about two castles in more detail. (Homes as very few could build today) 1. In northwest Wales lies the Conwy valley, where around 1500 a castle was built and extended in the decades following. By 1920 most of its content was auctioned off and the process of deterioration began. It would have become one of the many ruins scattered all around Britain, if not for a young couple, who bought it with their savings, mortgaging themselves into a life of poverty, with the goal of restoring