{"id":379,"date":"2016-07-21T22:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T22:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenandjon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2024-06-13T22:48:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T21:48:06","slug":"bowood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hweb.uk\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Bowood House & Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First day of the school holidays and a trip out to Bowood House & Gardens<\/a> near Calne, Wiltshire with Beverley, Janine and kids.  It didn’t open until 11am which was quite late but at least it meant we didn’t have to be up too early for the 1 hour drive!  We hadn’t realised but the Wiltshire schools hadn’t yet broken up yet so the place was pretty quite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First port of call was the Adventure Playground and “Death Slide” as the kids have named the vertical drop slide.\u00a0 Coffee was the priority for the Mum’s!\u00a0 No sooner than we arrived, it was time for lunch!\u00a0 Back to the cafe by the entrance for sandwiches or paninis.\u00a0 There was a restaurant in the main house, but this had changed since the last visit.\u00a0 Rather than choosing things off the menu, it was a buffet style meal.\u00a0 It all looked really nice although we decided against it as not all the kids would eat what was on offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After lunch we walked around the lake to the temple and caves.\u00a0 It was quite dark in the caves, but the kids were brave and went through several times.\u00a0 After the walk, we headed in to explore the house.\u00a0 The house looked huge but as this was still a family home, the vast majority was out of bounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back to the adventure playground for the kids to have an ice cream and another play.\u00a0 The weather then changed and the rain started so we took our cue to leave and head home.<\/p>\n\n\n

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