Day 8

We were expecting rain all day today so planned to spend time indoors exploring Mount Stuart house. We arrived just in time for the 11am tour and were really glad we made it. The house is incredible, and there is so much detail and interesting facts that we would have missed had we not had a tour guide. Every available surface of the house was intricately carved, painted or woven with the most incredible detail and intricate patterns. We were blown away by the amount of work that must have gone into it, and how they even managed to get the materials to the island in the first place. The marble came from Italy.

It was actually not raining by the time we finished the tour of the house so we managed to get round part of the gardens too before we had lunch in the cafe. And we spotted a submarine out to sea.

By that time it was raining pretty hard, so we headed home along the last bit of main road that we hadn't yet ridden on.

The afternoon was spent packing, reading and watching films with the vague hope that it might stop raining long enough for a quick walk, but it didn't.Read more