I needed to spend the better part of this week in Oxford, England, so on the advice of a friend I visited Blenheim Palace. Overall, I think it was well worth it. The literature there states its Britian's greatest palace (I am not quite sure how you measure that), and it's listed a World Heritage site. This is the place where Winston Churchill was born, married and buried - and Being a Churchill fan gave me all the more reason to go.
Here are a couple of pictures I took with my cell phone. It's hard to get a feel for the scale, it beng much larger than shown here.
After all the architecure, decoration and gardens, the most memorable thing I viewed was a short quote by Churchill:
I hope that the home we are remodeling will positively affect our lives. I want it to be a place that we enjoy living in, others enjoy visiting, and I would like that to come from my own hands as much as possible.
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