Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Oxford and Waddesdon Manor
The following day saw us in Oxford again and we were off for a walk in the morning around Christchurch Meadows to do 3 geocaches and after lunch a visit to the Ashmolean Museum. We spent a couple of hours perusing the artefacts and then decided we had enough for one day. The Ashmolean has everything on show from Egyptian mummies to English landscape paintings.
Later in the week we went over to Waddesdon Manor near Aylesbury. The house was created by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild. He loved everything French and so created this magnificent house with grounds to match and then furnished it with French paintings, furniture, Savonnerie carpets, Sevres china etc. We thought Blenheim was good, but this was better. As you know the Rothschilds are rich, well they have another 39 properties similar to this one around Europe; I call that very, very rich.
Later in the week we went over to Waddesdon Manor near Aylesbury. The house was created by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild. He loved everything French and so created this magnificent house with grounds to match and then furnished it with French paintings, furniture, Savonnerie carpets, Sevres china etc. We thought Blenheim was good, but this was better. As you know the Rothschilds are rich, well they have another 39 properties similar to this one around Europe; I call that very, very rich.
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