Throughout my childhood my family just repeated mostly the same National Trust sites on rotation, most often Plas Newydd in Anglesey. They had banging ice cream and this little wooded area with a playground which I loved, it was nice
by DatGuyGandhi
Throughout my childhood my family just repeated mostly the same National Trust sites on rotation, most often Plas Newydd in Anglesey. They had banging ice cream and this little wooded area with a playground which I loved, it was nice
by DatGuyGandhi
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I do like Plas Newydd, although the view is arguably more impressive than the house! I wish the NT allowed the Anglesey coastal path to pass along that portion of the strait, as the detour inland isn’t quite as scenic.
Me and my wife go to North Wales a couple of times a year and we always go to Bodnant Gardens without fail. Also Penrhyn Castle and Plas Newydd. You’re absolutely right about the ice cream.
Yes, Clivedon and Chatsworth on repeat, with some others peppered in. So many portraits of men in wigs.
No, this is just a normal thing?
My family used to go on walks with the grandparents and our cousins. Same sites on rotation exactly as you said
Plas Mawr in Conwy with a very erotic harp player was my dad’s favourite return visit.
No. my entire childhood was just a rotation of the same 5-10 locations every weekend.
No, growing up my parents rotated through the same NT places.
I wish, my childhood weekends were spent being dragged round shopping centres
Did they have a membership? NT properties are good for letting kids run around and tire themselves out.
I went to Dover Castle more times than I can even count as a kid.
Seemed to be about the only place we actually went to make use of my Mum’s English Heritage card.
We live close to 4-5 properties, and have an annual membership. The properties often put on activities for kids, so we take the kiddo to one of those. So yep, he’ll be going to the same few mostly, and others on holidays etc.
We did it too! It was Cragside House and Gardens mainly. I have a vivid memory of walking into one of the bedrooms there and my brother saying ‘and who would live in a house like this’ and all the adults in the room laughed and I was completely oblivious to why it was funny.
I now take my little one there too but probably more frequently to Wallington Hall. We have quite a few near us in driving distance and it’s just nice to have a place they can run around that also have play parks and nice plants for us to look at.
I grew up down the road from Ickworth Park and we went there loads. Still one of my favourite places in the world.
That’s we do as a family now. We go to a few national trust places nearby like Polesden Lacey or Hatchlands. Not NT but we visit RHS Wisley often. And then the occasional play farm like Bocketts or Hobbledown. There are only so many places you can go that the kids like and we all like to be out in nature.
I have been to Colchester Castle eight times, RAF Duxford four times, and every castle in Kent at least once (Dover and Deal at least three times each). Mum was a history teacher.
My dad and I have a few we go to on rotation. We live right near 2 of them and there are 4 or 5 we visit often enough that they know us.
My family used to visit the same English heritage sites on rotation
No. That’s what we would do too. Never seemed to get boring either, strangely. Often it’s because properties were en route to and from the Lakes where we had a caravan. We’d also use the card so Mum could grab a quick scone from the tearoom or just to “use the facilities”.
Yep! Cotehele, Lanhydrock, Castle Drogo, Buckland Abbey.
Strangely enough, we repeatedly visited Plas Newydd! Snap!
My parents still go to the same places on rotation (and will complain about always going to the same places).
Well put it this way, I was wondering if that was Anglesey before I opened the link
My 21st birthday present from my grandparents was lifetime NT membership. Best thing I ever got!
My family still does this. I drag my friends into it too lol, me and my friend do the same two or three National Trust places half a dozen times a year at least.
No, mine did that too. Polesden Lacey isn’t even a proper name for a house FFS.
Yep, Plas Newydd, Bodnant and a few others on repeat every Saturday without fail
No, I’ve been to Attingham Park near Shrewsbury loads of times with my parents, both as a kid and as an adult. Lovely parklands. There are a few English Heritage sites I’ve been to loads of times too, like Wroxeter and Wenlock Priory. Sure, sometimes it’s nice to go to one you’ve not been to before but sometimes you wanna go to a place that’s within a half hour drive with some nice outside spaces and something to learn about.
emerald plains from r6?
If you’ve got membership, then it just makes sense.