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Last July we took the opportunity to visit Castle Howard in Yorkshire, the we being myself, my mother in law, and my three children Emma 9, Calum 6 and Ewan then 2, the children were really excited about seeing a “ real castle” and so the journey was as is usual filled with are we there yet?
My mother in law had visited Castle Howard previously so we felt we had our own tour guide on board. On arrival the queues were quite long so we decided to go an get a drink before continuing, the café prices were extortionate and although the place itself was very clean and well presented it was cold and the staff were less than amiable, not wanting to let this put us off we carried on and went to queue for entry into the grounds, had we not had complimentary tickets I’m not sure whether we would normally consider this as a day out as entry was also quite expensive for the children, once inside it is hard not to
The Hayloft Cafe
where they sell an assortment of gifts and food for the peacocks! We bought some of the latter and went off in search of some to feed. Once the peacock food had all been used we headed for the lake, it’s not too far and once there the children found an adventure playground so the boy’s were more than happy and forgave Emma for dragging them round the house!!!
We spent quite a while there and had drinks and ice-cream (again not reasonably priced) we had wanted to go on the boat ride but again price and queues made this impossible, and the children were more than happy to play in the playground, after some time we decided to have another walk and actually without realising ended up back at the entrance, we had a quick look around and as we had a fairly long journey ahead we decided that it would be best to head home.
Once home I asked the children what they had most enjoyed about the day and was not surprised when they all agreed that the playground was the thing that stood out most!! A long way to go and a lot of money to pay for a couple of hours on an adventure playground!!!