One of the things that has made our journey so much nicer has been our New Zealand Historic Places membership card. With this card we've been able to get into many National Trust properties free of charge.
Today we visited Powis Castle near Welshpool. The castle held an impressive display of Indian works of art and treasures collected by Clive of India. The castle was built ca 1200 and perched romantically on a rocky outcrop. Inside held a collection of interesting furniture and paintings, but because of the lighting or should I say 'lack of lighting' everything felt very dark, gloomy and a bit oppressive.
The garden made up for the interior gloominess by it's beautiful terraced Italian and French style garden overhung by enormous clipped yew trees. Once again the autumn colours were breathtaking.
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