Our Favourite Castle

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Our journey from Edinburgh started at the train station, where we picked up our rental car. After fitting all of us and our luggage into the car, we had our first experience with standard transmission, right hand side driving. Unlike our experience in Australia, even with narrow streets and round abouts, our voyage to England was mostly uneventful. In fact no other motorists gestured, honked or stared with derision at us.



We arrived Alnwick Castle - site of the first broomstick scene in Harry Potter. Although we arrived too late to enter the castle, the grounds and the castle exterior were 'Brilliant!'. There was a Falconry exhibit and archery and broomstick flying training (although we arrived too late in the day to experience them). So far, this was our favourite castle.

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