Anglesey Abbey

We rode to Anglesey Abbey on my birthday. I'll let curious readers follow the links if they want to read more about the estate's history: In brief, it's the story of an early 20th-century English-American heir to an oil and railway fortune, who decided to spend his time and money collecting valuable things and creating a massive 18th-century-style English garden, and who donated the property to the National Trust when he died so that the public can get a taste of what it was like to live as one of the 0.25%. The house is interesting ...

... the library is fascinating...

... and the  landscaped property is lovely:

We plan to visit again.

The bike ride there and back--about six and a half miles each way--was almost as much fun as the Abbey itself, and now that we have gone that far successfully, we have our sights on longer trips.