I realized that I didn't put up the pictures of our last day in Wales the end of August. This is the Berkeley Castle. The oldest Castle in Britain to be lived in by the same family for nearly 900 years. History: Where King Edward II was murdered; where the Barons of the West Country gathered before Magna Carta; where Queen Elizabeth hunted and played bowls....
This ancient building, and the family who live here, have been touched by almost every major historic event throughout the last millennium: the Battles of Agincourt, Flodden and Cullodden, the American War of Independence, the first American Thanksgiving, and Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, written for a Berkeley wedding.
Berkeley College in California was named after this family or something like that.
There was a butterfly house close by which was a part of the grounds.
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I am amazed at the construction skills the builders had 1,000 years ago! Those buildings are still standing. Here in the U.S. anything built 100 years ago is condemned as being unsafe for humans to be in. I wonder if the buildings we are making now will be condemned in 50 years?
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