Waddesdon Manor

Part of my new National Trust Travels blog series… My all-girls grammar in Buckinghamshire decided to big itself up even more by naming its six ‘Houses’ after famous manor houses in the county. Five of them are National Trust properties, and so when I got my membership I duly challenged myself to visit them all! (Annoyingly, the […]

The Morgans of Tredegar House

Part of my new National Trust Travels blog series…             In Cardiff for my husband’s birthday, we simply had to carve out an afternoon to visit Tredegar House, a recent acquisition for the National Trust and lauded as one of the “wonders of Wales”. The familial seat of the Morgan family since […]

Newark Park

Part of my new National Trust Travels blog series… My husband and I were thrilled to receive National Trust memberships this past Christmas; we’d been banging on about wanting them for years, but firstly we hadn’t had a car, and then we’d been saving up for our wedding, so it had never been the right time. 2015 […]