Tyntesfield House

 Our energy provider incredulously gave Rebecca and me two tickets to a National Trust property of our choice. Tyntesfield House has long been on our 'Bristol to-do' list but it's always been too expensive to justify. No longer though! Parking was still a paid premium, but we knocked this attraction off our bucket list. I packed a cute little picnic for us to enjoy on the orangey lawn, Rebecca dropped a few nuts for the wildlife to enjoy but that gave us the fuel required to muscle past the slow walkers inside the eponymous house. It was a pretty mid-tier National Trust property, annoyingly it did that thing where rooms were cordoned off at the doorway, so you could poke your head in but could never get a sense of the space. There was also a distinct lack of information signage. I read most of the ones inside the building and I still don't know who lived there nor why it was an important building. I know they had servants and there was a billiards room but that about it. Still, it was a grand day out in somebody else's dime.