Penrhyn Castle Vlog - Exploring North Wales

[@DADDIO1969]

Excellent start for 2024 with a house in a shape of a Castle! Castles are so fascinating!!!👍 Wow!!! Love that it's still Christmas in that Amazing house! Lol Incredible information!!! Always enjoy your tours and the Wonderful information you provide!!! Congratulations on the patreon!!! Looking forward to a whole new year from you guys!!! 😁🤙👊

[@PostcardAndAPint]

It was a lovely day and a fascinating place to visit. Yes - Wills got Christmas for one more day! Happy New Year to you too. Here's to a happy and successful new year for all of us. 🍻

[@FXWalesAnnaAlf]

Hi guys we were here before Christmas to tie in with our slate mine videos and still not edited ! Will definitely bump into you at some point ! A stunning place and we love the church ruins in the grounds. You went at a nice time of year with the Christmas decor and it was great you got a tour of the port and boat 😃Loved the drone footage over the port. The old machinery there is great to see. Happy New Year! ~ Anna 👍❤️

[@PostcardAndAPint]

I think I last went with school! That’s how long it’s been! It was a lovely day out and we we look forward to seeing your video about it too. Cheers 🍻

[@TravelingTramps]

Don't tell Wills, Rachel but New Years Day is only the 8th day of the 12 days of Christmas He could still be celebrating! Well not today as it ended yesterday with the Epiphany, Jan 6th. Fun seeing the castle and informative learning about it's history from you. Beautiful castle, stunning inside and out. Lovely to have Wills be able to celebrate another Christmas! Wonderful tour and we enjoyed coming along. Thanks so much for the shout-out! Love you both and are looking forward to seeing your channel grow in 2024 and beyond. We'll be coming along too.

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Hahaha - our house was well and truly de cheistmmassed yesterday - when wills was at work so it was less traumatising!! Penrhyn is a lovely place to visit. We’d love to experience a Victorian Christmas - it seemed a lot simpler then! Happy New Year to you and Kathy. We hope you’re toasty warm down in the southern states at the moment. Cheers 🍻

[@ninja-japan]

I can feel the wonderful culture of your country in your videos. Thank you for sharing this wonderful video, my friends.🥷🇯🇵

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Thank you so much for watching. It was a beautiful place to visit and we had a lovely day. Cheers 🍻

[@TheSlawsAdventures]

Happy New Year Rach & Wills! What a lovely look back in time in the castle. Thank you for taking us with you. Good luck with dry January. We won’t be joining you 😂 We say this regularly, you absolutely deserve your channel to grow! We love watching you guys. Cheers to the good times 🍻

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Looks your honesty!! One of my fav comments on a vid was from an American channel who are drinking just dry wine for their dry January! We may try that next year!!! Thanks for your kind comments - you guys deserve to be bigger too so here’s hoping we can both step it up and grow a lot this year. Happy New Year and Cheers 🍻

[@The_Brit_Girls]

Hi Rach & Wills, thoroughly enjoyed your journey around Penrhyn Castle and Port Penrhyn. Wills looked like such a happy bunny seeing that Christmas was still being celebrated. It was very interesting to learn about the history of the castle, even though, as always, some of it was a bit grim. Btw, we are both doing Dry January too. Let us raise a glass of sparkly water to you both! Happy 2024! ❤🎉

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Good luck with your dry Jan, ours is still going strong - although it was tested with a hash evening in work yesterday!! Yep, one last Christmassy day for Wills! Now it’s all packed away again until December (or November - depends on how bad the years been!!). Cheers for watching and have a great 2024 🍻

[@groundhoglife]

Another great informative video guys. Looking forward to watching what you post this year. Best wishes to you both.

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Thank you so much. We’re very excited for 2024. We absolutely love what we do and can’t wait to do more. Cheers for the support 🍻

[@IamaDutch-Kiwi]

Love castles- and this one is beautifully restored, kept and full of history. You tell it so well Rachel. We love North Wales too. That drone footage was gorgeous- such a better overal view of the area. Some amazing boats in that harbour. Just had a bowl of the thickest pea soup myself while watching. So heartwarming. Sometimes it is just nice to visit outside the season - less people ad more time to look around. Lovely video, thanks for kicking off the year with this. Happy week ahead. 👌🇳🇱🙋‍♀🇳🇿

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Ah thanks Anita. Yes the thing with baiting on New Year’s Day - less people! We had so much of it to ourselves which was brilliant. We loved the port too and could imagine it back in the day shipping out all that slate. Sounds like you had a very restorative day! Love pea soup! Cheers and happy New year 🍻

[@nationalparksprincess3216]

This was an interesting tour with an interesting history! I enjoyed seeing the displays, and your presentation was cute and funny 😅 nice garden and walk in the woods.Nice to see Jihns boat. I enjoy how much humor you get into your episodes!

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Thank you so much for watching. It was really interesting to learn about how they lived in Victorian times - it seems so much simpler (well certainly if you’re gentry!!). It was random running into John, but great to catch up. Cheers for watching 🍻

[@renatalimarzi]

Hello, Rach and Wills! Hope you had a GREAT start of the Year! Wishing you once again a fantastic, blessed and healthy 2024!! Well, Wills, I guess you're sad about the end of the Holiday Season...I am too! I love Christmas and its magical atmosphere! But everything ends and we are already projected towards the future! Thanks for showing us this particular Castle. It is also very interesting to listen to its history and learn more. As always, such a well presented and filmed vlog! I will follow you with joy also in 2024, dear friends!! HUGS and cheers and my huge like! ! Renata

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Thank you so much Renata. Yes, Wills got one more day of Christmas and it made him very happy! It was a lovely castle to visit and brilliant to see how life was in Victorian times. We wish you all the best for 2024 and fingers crossed we get to Milan soon!!! Cheers 🍻

[@renatalimarzi]

@@PostcardAndAPint Hope so, guys!! It will be AMAZING to embrace you in person!! Hugs and nice evening!! Renata

[@kennethfinnegan2978]

It’s like watching the History Channel. Beautifully edited and well narrated.

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Ah thanks Ken. It was a lovely day out 🍻

[@CooksExplore]

Love the historical facts in this video. Learned more in this video than when I went there as a kid……Nice to see it’s still popular with big kids…Thank you guys….

[@PostcardAndAPint]

The last time we’d been there was on school trips in junior school! We learnt a lot lore this time too!! It’s a lovely place and well worth a visit. Cheers 🍻

[@JohnandCaraRetiredTravellers]

Sorry we are late to the party..Happy 2024! Rachel your narration is outstanding (on this and all the videos). Editing & drone shots bravo! I just love seeing the life behind the walls of the aristocratic lifestyle. Fascinating! Great video so cool you met with your friend too! Cheers guys! ~Cara ❤

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Ah thank you. It was a lovely start to the year for sure. Thank you for your very kind comment and happy New Year. 🍻

[@billyb5057]

most interesting castle to tour there *🦘Au🪱👀fully viewed☑👍like✅have a good week🔆*

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Thanks Billy, it was brilliant to see how they used to live. Cheers 🍻

[@ians3586]

That was a really interesting video. Penryhn Castle has long been on my bucket list. The interiors are so beautiful.

[@PostcardAndAPint]

It was stunning. We definitely want to go back when the upstairs is open too. Cheers for watching 🍻

[@PinnedonPlaces]

ooo yes, loved this Rach and Wills, have ALWAYS wanted to visit Penryhn castle and now i am, through your lens which is even better. Loved the storytelling and your style of showing of this gorgeous castle. What a special treat to be able to enjoy the Christmas theme, just once more! hehe, Wills was properly in his element! Oo the grounds and gardens were nice, loved to see the variety of plants. Awesome to see Johns boat, that was awesome that you bumped into him! Loved the drone shots, beautiful! Ahh, this was awesome, thank you both for another epic video from the both of you

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Thanks guys. We’re so behind on vids at the moment!! We’re planning a catch up session tonight! It was a lovely day and we’d love to see you guys do a video on it with more history (better told than us!!). Times certainly seemed similar then for sure. Cheers for watching and happy new year. Here’s to success for all of us this year. 🍻

[@HereToCheers]

Absolutely loved the enchanting journey through Penrhyn Castle and Port Penrhyn! 🏰✨ Rachel and Wills, you guys have great storytelling, brought the history to life. The 'house' was beautiful and so ornate, shame like so many historic places there's a dark past. Never heard of a bog garden.... OOHHHHhh that's what dry January means... we've just been drinking Chardonnay thinking we had to stay away from the sweeter wines... We learn so much from you guys 😁😁 Looking forward to more adventures in 2024! 🎉🚢

[@PostcardAndAPint]

First off, loving your take on dry January! We might get try that one another year!!! We’d never heard of a big garden until this day either. It was really interesting to learn all about life in Victorian times. All in all it was a great day out. Happy New Year 🍻

[@JefPersonalVideos]

Its a beautiful castle and view of the place around thanks for the tour and happy new year

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Thank you so much for joining us and happy new year to you too. 🍻

[@justramblinaround]

Hey guys we really enjoy you and your channel so very much! We love how you film and set this up like a tour every time as if we are friends running around with you. Your narration is always perfect but even better your commentary it absolutely excellent! You crack me up so much when you said your new years resolution then spilled the soup I was laughing. That whole area to walk around was absolutely fantastic. Loved the Iron Maiden shirt at the end Ron loves Iron Maiden. Ok so we do the same we try to stay dry until Valentines and maybe we might have one cheat day but sometimes not and we do so well we sometimes after Valentines we go until St Patricks. We will see but it does help balance us out especially after the holidays and we do a lot during our summers! Happy New Years we really love how entertaining you are and if we ever make it your way we hope we can meet up! Wishing you Health, Happiness and many Adventures!

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Thank you so much for this lovely comment! Last year we failed miserably with the dry January. This year it’s going well and I feel like we have a different mindset - so fingers crossed we’re more successful! Thanks for your kind comments on our videos. We love what we do and enjoy learning ourselves - yep I’ve given up on being clean and tidy already - it’s just not me!! All the best for 2024 and here’s to a happy and successful year for all of us. Cheers 🍻

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

I tried to watch this video earlier but Ian heard the intro and insisted we watch it together on the big screen telly! He had been wanting to visit this castle 😊. Great video! We loved it!!

[@PostcardAndAPint]

You guys will definitely have to visit! We have so many castles for you to enjoy!

[@maidenengland2]

Happy new year, what a lovely castle , loved seeing around the boats at the port 😊

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Cheers - it was a lovely place to visit. We enjoyed the port too. It must have been so busy back in the day shopping all that slate out! Cheers for watching 🍻

[@AdventureWaves]

What a cool place to explore! Thanks for sharing

[@PostcardAndAPint]

It was a stunning castle. We’d love to experience a Victorian Christmas. Cheers 🍻

[@susiachmady]

Penrhyn Castle, a very beautiful building in North Wales, beautiful wallpaper, and very beautiful carved wooden doors, and a long history of the castle's past. Happy New Year .. nice tea cup color dear

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Thank you so much for watching. We really enjoyed our tour there. Cheers for joining us 🍻

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

How nice that Christmas decorations were still up for Wills!

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Yes he got one more day of Christmas 🎄

[@o.bsoutdoors3871]

Another year, another postcard exploring a Welsh castle video, love it! 🥰 🏰👌. Penrhyn looked like a beauty too! What a great day out. Ah so glad to see we aren't the only ones that held onto Christmas until well into 2024 😊 ☃️. The castle looked amazing all decked out ❤. We would love to have experienced an old fashioned Christmas there too, but defo as part of the gentry of course 😂🎄👍. Nice to run into your friend too, Pete would love to do up his own boat 🚢😊. What a great day out. We enjoyed coming along guys! Sorry for the late comment, we watched when first out, but we are still catching up!🙈. Have a great week ahead both, Shell and Pete 😊👊👍

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Wills was clinging to that one last day of Christmas by his fingernails! It was a lovely visit and quiet too which was great! Johns boat wasn’t that expensive! But I believe was a wreck, but it’s certainly a labour of love! Cheers for watching 🍻

[@glyn829]

Thats really interesting 👌 and you always put a fun twist to your films 👍 nice tour thanks Glyn

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Thank you so much for watching. Wills got one more day of Christmas!!! Cheers 🍻

[@Terry.W]

Interesting castle tour..

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Thanks for joining us 🍻

[@GENerationXplorers]

What a great place to visit, all decked out for Crimbo. Like that you have to do a walk to get there, very appealing. Neo Norman indeed, very modern! Ah our Christmas tree sadly departed today. Perfect time to visit, looks like a Harry Potter set with the floating candles. Such a wonderful hark back to the Victorian bygone era. This is a place we would love to visit during Christmas, would love to see this Victorian Christmas display. Great resolution, oh no! You cant beat Victorian gardens, these were great, even in winter you can appreciate the design. A very timely port tour. Well done on the dry January! ☕️☕️

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Cheers guys! I dechristmased out house yesterday when wills was at work (less traumatising for him!!). This was a lovely place to visit and we would definitely like to sample a Victorian Christmas one year (gentry side of course). Dry Jan is going well, a week in and not really missing it! That will change today as it’s back to work - the one thing that drives me to drink!!! Cheers 🍻

[@GENerationXplorers]

@@PostcardAndAPintAh a week is an amazing feat, yes always need a drink after a day at work! It is a traumatising experience taking the Christmas Tree down. I had to wrestle two real trees yesterday back into their netting before driving them to the tip. I’m still recovering from the ordeal!

[@theresabigwideworld2632]

Loved the way this castle was presented, especially the servants area, it was all 'Downton Abbey'. The Christmas decorations were lovely, it was all done so well. I also joke about wanting to live in a stately home during the Victorian era, although I probably would have been the downstairs scullery maid! The gardens were in their winter mode, I'm sure that in summer they would be lovely, I visited a few walled gardens in Norfolk last year and they all were beautiful and a riot of colour.

[@PostcardAndAPint]

It was quite Downton Abbey wasn’t it! Yep, we’d probably be servants too, although I like the idea of a Victorian Christmas gentry style! We definitely want to go back in summer as it’s a stunning place and we’d lovely o see those gardens in full bloom! Cheers for watching 🍻

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

So many "houses in the shape of castles" 🏰 in Northumberland too. But I still love them ❤

[@PostcardAndAPint]

They’re great, imagine building yourself a castle to live in!! Cheers 🍻

[@WITYTRAVELS]

Happy Christmas! Beautiful castle. Our Lots of space for Christmas trees. Rach, you're supposed to make resolutions you can keep at least a month. Adele 😂 try saying "slates shipped" 5 times fast! Happy New Year! Stay dry!

[@PostcardAndAPint]

I know, couldn’t even keep a resolution for a day me!! The dry one is going well though! I’ll give slates shipped a miss!!! Wills was glad to have one more Christmassy day. Hope you guys are well. 🍻

[@DonnaTaibossigai]

Very neat you two caught the last day of Christmas. It's a fabulous castle. Loved the patch of dead dragons! 😂 It would be so awesome to see this place in person.

[@PostcardAndAPint]

It was so interesting to visit. Were used to castles being ruins, so to see one that might be younger but is a home was cool, dead dragons and all!!! Cheers for watching and Happy New Year 🍻

[@morgsjoboo2247]

Happy New Year guys 😊 Hope you are both well Another great informative video, so much history Lots of lovely decorations. I bet it's lovely in the summer too. Have a great week Morgs Jo and Boo 🐕 ❤

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Thank you so much for watching. It was a lovely day out and one last grasp of Christmas! We’ve subbed to your channel and popped a couple of videos in our history for later. Cheers 🍻

[@morgsjoboo2247]

@PostcardAndAPint awww thank you for subscribing to our channel, it really means a lot 😊 looking forward to watching lots more of your videos. 😊

[@grapesodatravels]

Gotta love a National Trust day out! What a fabulous place. Reminded me of Castle Drogo. We're doing dry January too as we had an extremely wet December!

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Hahaha - same as us, December was wet!! So far finding it surprisingly easy! We’re considering adding National Trust membership this year as well. Cheers for watching 🍻

[@grapesodatravels]

@PostcardAndAPint It's definitely worth the cost.

[@WoodsideWalker]

Happy new year guys! What an amazing castle. Unfortunately we can't change our history but let's hope we can learn from it. Ps nice t-shirt Wills ❤

[@PostcardAndAPint]

That’s so true Tasha! We learnt a lot about the life in the castle this day and it was fascinating. Cheers for watching - Wills says - there’s only one type of T-shirt isn’t there???? Cheers 🍻

[@rjk0225]

We are couple from Helsinki Finland. I have watched all your North Wales videos and love them! We are coming to Harlech in april. I cannot wait.

[@PostcardAndAPint]

That makes us so happy! Have the best time ever in Harlech. You’ll love the castle and the beach is stunning. We’d love to visit Helsinki one day. Cheers 🍻

[@TheWrightLifeTravelChannel]

It's prob a little weird, but I always love it when the servant bells are still at stately homes!

[@PostcardAndAPint]

I've not seen that before, it was so cool! Cheers for watching 🍻

[@davidGPS95]

Hi Guys , Lovely castle 🏰 Have you ever visited the Northumberland coast ? You would love it , lots of castles, history, countryside and beautiful sandy beaches, i would recommend Bamburgh, Alnwick, Seahouses, Etal and the town of Berwick upon Tweed. 👍

[@PostcardAndAPint]

We've watched lots of vlogs of that area and it looks stunning. There are so many places we want to go to. One day we'll have the time and means to do this we hope. Cheers for watching 🍻

[@davidhalsall7342]

Oh wow, I did the Bangor half marathon in 2022 and didn't realise till watching your vid that I'd ran around the Penrhyn castle and grounds on the race,didn't get chance to appreciate it as I was having a torrid time during the run(everything went wrong during the race) gonna have to go back now it looks amazing 🏰👍

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Sounds like an eventful half marathon!!! We leave running alone and eat cake instead! We’re glad you enjoyed the video. Do go back and check it out when it’s open as it’s fascinating inside. Cheers 🍻

[@WanderingwithWatto]

Enjoyed that guys. Maybe too many Xmas trees for me though. 🤷🏻‍♂️. Agree about the decor and the grounds looks good. Would be nice to see in summer as you said. Nice seeing around the port too. Great seeing you doing so well and yes Will I’m sure you will CONKER the world. 🌰🌰. ATB from Glos vegas. 👍🏻🚶🏻‍♂️🚶‍♀️

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Too many Christmas trees ????? Never! Hope you guys had a wonderful Christmas and all the best for 2024. Cheers 🍻

[@johnnymac26]

Cracking stuff mrs mac is doing a dry January also im having her share lol

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Excellent stuff! Thats very chivalrous of you! Happy new year 🍻

[@yasminshikingmission]

Beautiful place to visit 😊 shame about some of the history surrounding the creation of the house. Amazing place though and you got an extra day of Christmas wills 😁

[@PostcardAndAPint]

It is a shame, but hopefully we learn from history! It was such a beautiful house though! Cheers for watching and all the best for 2024 - who knows if they’ll be a random bump into yasmin day!! Cheers 🍻

[@SSRT_JubyDuby8742]

Super pleased that you have patreons 🔥 Like deployed 👍

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Cheers Jock 🍻

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

It's OK Rach... I'm a messy eater too 😞

[@PostcardAndAPint]

I shouldn’t be allowed out!

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@PostcardAndAPint there is a reason I never wear white shirts!

[@ShaneNixonFamily]

Happy New Year Wills and Rach! Is it truly a Welsh castle if it wasn't built by Edward the Bastard? Speaking of the scourge of slavery, our local council area here in Melbourne was called the City of Moreland up until about a year ago. But Moreland was named after the estate of some Jamaican sugar plantation one of first settlers had. So finally after about 30 years of the name with racist connotations we had a vote to change the name to an indigenous name - Merri-bek. Which means rocky country in the local Woi-wurrung language. You wouldn't believe the racist moaning from a significant noisy minority though. 🙄 There is nothing like taking a bog in the garden. I love a bit of wood in the valley too. Is John's boat named after the 'rona? Brilliantly done again. Congratulations on taking the plunge into Patreon.

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Cheers Shane and again thanks for all your support. We eagerly await your video per month this year!! It was the same in Bristol here a few years back. The general public trashed a few statues and pushed them into the channel as they were all slave owners! Then a few people get upset! We’d never heard of a big garden til this day! To be honest most of the U.K. is a big garden at the moment, it hasn’t stopped raining in forever! Happy New Year to you and your lovely family and all the best for 2024 (and your videos) 🍻

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

The meat in the first larder (chickens and steaks) looked real not plastic!

[@PostcardAndAPint]

They were very plastic!

[@Millionaire-Paul]

Enjoyed as always, can't believe it's already nearly mid-January! Warm wishes from Millionaire Paul :) #moderndaybreakfastclub

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Don’t! It’s gone so fast. We’re both back at work now and the days are flying by. At least Wills got one more day of Christmas! Cheers 🍻

[@thecelticdruid7707]

I've just subscribed. Can you come to Bargoed? a former mining town in the South Wales valleys. A rich history so please check it out and put the town on the map as Bargoed has declined over the years. Once a thriving town with three Cinemas, actress Doris Hare was born there in 1905 and Doctor Who " The Green Death" was filmed very close by in 1973. A very interesting channel indeed, very informative. Sincere best wishes from Andrew. The Celtic Druid.

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Thank you so much and welcome to the channel. We’d love to come down to Bargoed, it sounds fascinating. Our problem at the moment is we work 6 days a week and only have Sundays free. I just looked at the trains and it’s a no can do in a day! I’ve written it in my book though and fingers crossed if we can grow our channel to let this become some of our job, we’ll be there!!! We have a lot of friends from south wales who we’ve worked with over the years and always enjoy a trip down there. Cheers 🍻

[@thecelticdruid7707]

@@PostcardAndAPint Thank you so much indeed for your welcome reply, I'm delighted to hear from you. Best wishes from Andrew.

[@kintukteekreetukpum]

❤🎉❤🤟❤️😜❤️🤟🎊

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Thank you so much for watching 🍻

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

I didn't know scrapbooking was Victorian!!

[@PostcardAndAPint]

I guess it makes sense. I use to make scrapbook as a kid. My nan always encouraged us to do royal ones!