【英语时差8,16】利兹城堡

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Leeds Castle Chen Li:Helen, I’m very excited about this place we’re going today. Helen: Me too. Today we’re taking you to Leeds Castle, set in the stunning¹ countryside of Kent, about one hour from London. Taking us on a tour of the castle is Victoria Wallace, the managing director of the castle. First she told us how old the castle is. Palace is exactly the right word – it was a royal palace. It’s basically a building that’s evolved over 900 years, it started off as one of the Norman castles. Leeds has been described as the loveliest castle in the world. And I think that’s largely because it sits in a beautiful fairytale landscape, sitting on these two islands in the middle of a lake, with gentle mellow² stone architecture. As you walk into the castle itself, you enter a completely different atmosphere - it looks like an English country house. And all the way around, are these big windows, so it’s a castle full of light. And you look out over the lakes and over the moat, and you see the swans swimming – particularly black swans, which are our speciality - and look out to the gentle English landscape beyond. We’ve got lovely gardens which are set up to show all sorts of different styles, and a fantastic maze³ with an underground grotto⁴, full of myth and mystery. You can be lost in there for hours, but for most people it takes about quarter of an hour to go round.