https://the-ramble.net/2023/08/21/blenheim-palace/ Lisa and John and the world. Tue, 22 Aug 2023 18:17:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://the-ramble.net/2023/08/21/blenheim-palace/#comment-612 Tue, 22 Aug 2023 18:17:21 +0000 https://the-ramble.net/?p=3704#comment-612 Yeah, I mean I tried to explain that it is very impressive and objectively beautiful in many ways. It’s just that it is so *singularly* focused on burnishing the image of, after all, a family that still lives in the place after all these years. For all I know they have an outstanding private art collection, but everything I saw on display was either an image of the family directly or else high-ranking nobility placed in proximity to the family. If you read about the family and/or the estate, you’ll see a lot of turmoil and bad fortune following good. Which, no, they aren’t obligated to talk about of course, but it just reinforces that this was *not* a museum in the normal sense of the word.

]]> https://the-ramble.net/2023/08/21/blenheim-palace/#comment-610 Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:51:35 +0000 https://the-ramble.net/?p=3704#comment-610 Interesting take on the place, which as you say is highly popular and touted by Rick Steves among others. I visited it years ago and remembering being distinctly unimpressed by pretty much everything except the yaks (or really hairy cows?). Of course, the fact I was 15 at the time might’ve had something to do with that. 🙂 I’d considered giving it another shot in my older and possibly wiser years but at 43 pounds a ticket, I think I’ll pass.

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