点评:I love this place! All the more so after reading Castles in the Air by Judy Corbett one of the owners of this amazing life-long restoration project. Highly recommend visiting and taking your time wandering around the place both inside and out.
Do take warm clothes as it can get a little chilly with all the thick stone walls and flags.
There are laminated sheets explaining the items in the room and the previous families and the history of the building, but the book describes all the sweat and tears Judy and Peter went through from beginning to where they're at now. I won't say end because this restoration will never end!
They’ve both spent their lives sourcing and bring back the original belongings of the castle and they continue to do so.
We had a little more time around the outside today because it's always been raining when we've come and the building is just exquisite and felt like we'd travelled back in time! It's been so sympathetically restored.
Massive bonus for our visit today was that it's breeding time for the resident peacocks so they put on a full display for us... a VERY noisy one at that!!! So unbothered about us carefully passing them and sooooo majestic!
Plenty of parking and a covered area for refreshments in the summer months. No dogs allowed as the owners have their own dogs and, of course, the peacocks wouldn't take kindly to dogs!
Thank you Judy and Peter for being wonderful custodians of Gwydir Castle🙏
翻译:我太喜欢这里了!读了朱迪·科贝特(Judy Corbett)的《空中楼阁》(Castles in the Air)之后,我更加爱上这里了。朱迪是这座令人惊叹的城堡修复项目的发起人之一,她为此投入了毕生精力。强烈推荐大家来这里参观,慢慢欣赏城堡内外的美景。
记得带上保暖的衣物,因为厚厚的石墙和石板路可能会有点冷。
房间里有塑封的介绍单,讲解了房间里的物品、之前的住户以及建筑的历史,但这本书更详细地描述了朱迪和彼得从最初到现在所付出的汗水和泪水。我不会说“结束”,因为这项修复工作永无止境!
他们毕生致力于寻找并带回城堡的原物,而且他们仍在继续这项工作。
今天我们在外面多待了一会儿,因为之前每次来都下雨。这座建筑真是太精致了,感觉就像穿越回了过去!它的修复工作做得非常用心。
今天来访的一大惊喜是正值孔雀繁殖期,它们为我们上演了一场精彩的求偶表演……而且非常吵闹!!!我们小心翼翼地从它们身边走过,它们却毫不在意,真是太威风凛凛了!
这里有充足的停车位,夏季还有带顶棚的休息区供游客享用茶点。由于主人自己养狗,而且孔雀当然也不喜欢狗,所以这里不允许携带宠物犬。
感谢朱迪和彼得对格威迪尔城堡的悉心照料🙏