BLENHEIM PALACE ENGLAND

FROM WHEELCHAIR NOMAD DIARY... 2003 EE The palace was built by John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, in English Baroque architecture and is today occupied by the eleventh Duke, his wife and two children. One of the earlier Dukes had helped defeat Napoleon, and the Palace was the birthplace of Winston Churchill, a fact celebrated by a large pictorial display on Winstons life with audio excerpts taken from his speeches. The Palace itself stunned me with the opulent display of wealth apparent in the paintings, statues, carvings, gardens and library. We overlooked the garden while we ate a light lunch, drank cappuccinos and devoured scones. We then walked through the huge flowering rose gardens, with multiple rose varieties, appreciating the stately old arboretum, with massive oaks, maples, firs and copper beech trees, and followed along the creek and sparkling lake through the 2,100 acre verdant park, herb garden and miniature railway. The park provided a matchless setting, framing the grey Palace carvings against the blue skyline. By 4.00 pm, we were tired but took in the butterfly house and the maze, boasted as the second largest symbolic maze in the world.

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[peacemtn]

Neato

[thedukeofantioch]

thats well done