[General] We visited a stately home and the guide...

[Silverobama]

Hi.

Is the following sentence natural? Would native speakers use it? The source is not known now. I wrote this sentence down many years ago from a Chinese-English webiste.

We visited a stately home and the guide showed us nearly everything except one room, which he said was the owner's holy of holies.

 

[tedmc]

Sounds good to me.

 

[teechar]

Yes, it's fine.

 

[emsr2d2]

I don't see the need for both "nearly" and "except". He showed you nearly everything or he showed you everything except one room.