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Quite an interesting and small house and they do well with the theming and the appointments. Not much clutter as I thought there could be with a house this small. Love those windows and that is one small bath! Love the views of the scenery outside.
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Quite an interesting and small house and they do well with the theming and the appointments. Not much clutter as I thought there could be with a house this small.
No it wasn't. I think our house is more cluttered!
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Love those windows and that is one small bath! Love the views of the scenery outside.
Sunday 1 April – part seven: time for a reward for all that walking
We headed back downstairs and thank goodness one of the women at the bottom of the stairs warned me about the last two steps, as they were much steeper than all the others and otherwise, I wouldn’t have been prepared for them at all.
From here we entered the centre of the house, which was just stunning. Above us was the shell gallery, which is sadly now closed to the public, because people inadvertently cause damage to them. It’s a shame, but I understand why and they’re truly spectacular from here anyway. It’s believed it contains nearly 25,000 shells.
Fortunately on the way out, they had a virtual reality show of what it looks like, so at least we got an idea…
There were a couple more rooms off here to see…
.. and then we were done. We headed down the final flight of stairs to get to the café, which was on the way out and my goodness I really was feeling it by then! I’d done about 2,000 steps in one go (my previous best had been about 1,200) and three flights of stairs, so I’d done some seriously hard work for me. I was exhausted and just needed to sit, so Mark went to get a cream tea for us both.
Even here, it was a unique place…
We made it out…
.. stopping at the gift shop on the way for the traditional fridge magnet.
The final stop was the laundry…
By the time we came out, the car park was a lot emptier, something to do with the fact that the Easter egg hunt, planned for 2:00pm, had now been completed.
The shell room looked so very interesting! A shame you couldn't actually see it, but I understand. Your tea break was very well deserved. Was your foot/ankle hurting by all the walking?
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Congrats on all your extra steps. You are coming right along. Such a fascinating place. I complain about the size and configuration of my laundry room - so this puts that in perspective
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The shell room looked so very interesting! A shame you couldn't actually see it, but I understand.
I did too. I think it became a case of even if people didn't mean to damage it, it was still being damaged even by their presence.
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Your tea break was very well deserved. Was your foot/ankle hurting by all the walking?
It was a bit, but to be honest, it was more the exhaustion. Having only got out of the plaster cast a couple of weeks earlier and having been sitting and doing nothing for that fortnight I was in the plaster, I just wasn't used to the walking and of course the chronic fatigue compounded the problem.
Congrats on all your extra steps. You are coming right along.
Reliving this trip report is also helping me to remember how far I've come since then. Now I'm walking over a mile without the boot - at this point, I hadn't even got a shoe on to my right foot! I've also been using a pedometer and my average steps have gone up each week from just under 5,000 during the Easter week to over 8,000 this week.
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Such a fascinating place. I complain about the size and configuration of my laundry room - so this puts that in perspective
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The house is certainly unusual. Thank you for porting pictures of it. It's something I'd never seen before.
You really got a workout on that tour considering you'd has surgery 3 weeks before that.
Liz
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Not much clutter as I thought there could be with a house this small. Love those windows and that is one small bath! 
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I've also been using a pedometer and my average steps have gone up each week from just under 5,000 during the Easter week to over 8,000 this week. 
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