Visiting Hearst Castle is a must if you happen to travel down the Pacific Highway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Sadly on my trip the weather was foul with thick cloud and bouncing rain and we had absolutely no views of the surrounding coast or countryside from its towering location. The next day, however, there it stood, like a fairy-tale castle in the sky.
TRAVEL WORDS 
Heavens, you are prolific these days! 🙂 🙂 I’m sure I was there, or certainly nearby, on a blue sky day, but maybe I wasn’t because I can’t pin down a specific memory. It’s possibly just that I’ve seen a lot of photos of it and always meant to go there. This age thing is a bugger, isn’t it? 🙂 Happy Thursday, Jude!
The Thursday and Sunday posts are scheduled, as are the Monday macro ones so it is just the ones I am doing to link to Cathy or somewhere new that I have been to. I’m sure you’d remember this place if you’d been there. It’s quite extravagant!
I know! Think I might be confusing it with the park in San Diego. Entertaining a small person today so I’d quite like a bit of sunshine 😃
Perhaps the ultimate ‘folly’. A legacy of the excesses of the ‘monied class’.
Best wishes, Pete. x
Now they just buy super yachts and have them moved all around the world so they can spend a few days being seen in the right places. Cynical? Me?
Surely not, Jude!! But all this 21st Century ‘look at me’ stuff drives me crazy….
This 21st Century drives me crazy altogether, it is difficult to pick out a single country which hasn’t got huge problems. And the gap between the rich and poor just seems to be getting bigger.
That gap is certainly widening, and corruption increasing….hell and handcarts spring to mind
Sometimes I wonder if I am just becoming an ‘old’ person, but then I look at the state of things in the world and know that things are getting worse.
We’re on the same page, Jude…..
Bang to rights, Pete!
That’s quite a place!
Nice for entertaining all the Hollywood stars.
Huh!
Weather can make a big difference to your memories of places. Pleased the weather cleared for you
Too late for another visit though. In fact a section of this highway was closed for quite some time due to a landslip I believe until recently.
I loved visiting Hearst Castle, and I was lucky to have a beautiful day when I went. That’s a great photo of it atop the hill. 🙂
We watched the movie “Building the Dream” which was most impressive, except I get a little queasy watching films on those huge screens!
I don’t think I saw that film. Was it on an I-Max screen? Those made me nauseous too. 🙂
Yes! I-Max. I couldn’t remember the name.
Glad you saw it on the second go. I’ve not been but it looks majestic. Foul weather- the bain of travellers.
Well we did get the tour around the house – fortunately I hadn’t booked the tour around the grounds! But the views from up there must be magnificent.
I remember reading Elaine’s posts about Hearst Castle. What an amazing building.
You should see inside… now there’s a thought.
One day!
Look at the size of this place! It makes me wonder how much space does anyone really need? The older I get, the more I find this kind of excess disturbing.
You are not alone Jo. Some individuals have far too much money and so many have far too little.
We were so lucky the day we visited the castle to have a clear day and so we could see all the way to the ocean and beyond. I thought it was a fascinating place – and especially the story behind it.
I must dig out some photos for a photo essay.
That’ll give you something to do in your spare time, when you are not keeping up with your three blogs! I don’t know how you manage it – I struggle to keep one going!
nice