In addition to staying the night at Alnwick, we also visited the Alnwick castle which is the first castle we visited on our trip which is still inhabited. This one is inhabited by the Duke of Northumbria. When you go on the tour of the castle, not only do you see paintings of old royality but there are also recent photos everywhere of the current Duke and his family. It was quite a change to what we had been seeing at other places. Alnwick castle looks much more like what we would expect a castle to look like, prior to visiting all the castles we saw on the main European continent. This castle has also featured in some of the Harry Potter movies. After Alnwick, we continued up the coast to see another castle at the
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