Trip to Alnwick Castle

This is the castle where they shoot scenes from Harry Potter and Robin Hood...
The castle is actually owned by the Percy family and it's very famous because *ehem* they shot Harry Potter there..

I took loads of pictures but I can't possibly put them all in this blog page..(I think it will load really slow)
It was a very nice day..the sun was shining..birds were singing.. but it was very very cold...Luckily I wore the big jacket I brought from home..

I'll summarize the trip..^^

We set our journey from Sunderland city campus to Alnwick at 845am and arrived there at 1000am.
There were 2 sets of bus and the trip cost GBP 21. It was worth it...the normal price is much more expensive than that..our ticket was for the castle and the garden. Some of the events were free but things like archery, you need to pay to play.

Our first stop was the guided tour of the castle by a very loud and eager gentleman~ >_< he even played with us..

He was talking about Sir Henry "Hotspur" who was a great knight

 After the tour, Ella and I went around the castle area as many places as we could...down here is a dragon statue at the Knight's Quest area, where people can wear medieval costumes and look and play around at what it was like during the medieval era..

Rwarrrr

 The Percy family has been here for over 700 years!

This is the dungeon where the displayed how the dungeon was like in the old days.. The cellar had some sound effect to made it seem like there was actually someone there...There was also the Lost Cellars tour but didn't have time to go that tour.

poor doll

 After that we went to to the Roots and Shoots Garden where you can grow your very own veggies..there were quite a lot of bees around since they were a lot of flowers...

 Then, we went to the Alnwick Garden...you come in, and this is what you will definitely set eyes on this first.

a lot of children were playing near the fountain with a toy truck or something

 If you go further up, you'll get to the flower garden...Welcome~
I took a lot of pictures here but there were all flowers which I want to show to my mummy later.. she'll love it

Our last tour was the tour of the Poison Garden where some of the plants grown there can actually kill you if the drug is released in some way...we saw some of the plants that we have only read in books and notes like atropa belladonna, papaver somniferum and nicotine leaves to name a few.

Then we grab some late lunch and went back home at 430pm and reached Sunderland at 600pm...
just thought to write here before I forget all about it later.