Day 3: Longwood Gardens & Winterthur Museum

A day of Gardens and du Ponts.

We first toured Pierre S. du Pont's property: Longwood Gardens. It all started when du Pont wanted to save trees from being cut down for lumber in 1906. A half of a century later it is a magnificent horticultural showplace.

Yes this is the General Motors du Pont family if you were wondering.

Breathtaking would be a nice way to describe what lots of money and time can do for property.

For lunch we had a hosted lunch in at the Longwood Gardens Cafe.

Lunch was followed by the Winterthur Museum and Gardends.

This estate was built by Henry Francis du Pont and his father Alegernon du Pont in the early 20th century. Henry Francis is famous for his antique collection. You may have heard of the Winterthur Catelogue? If you are antique lover you would have loved the tour of this man's home.

The tour of the house was followed by a garden tram tour and stroll through gardens.

The rest of the evening was spent at the hotel with and independent dinner: Meet you down stairs at the bar.