Alnwick, United Kingdom

It's less than 2 weeks till I begin my 'once in a lifetime' trip, with all the paperwork completed and bag virtually packed.  The excitement and anticipation just seems to be building hour by hour, day by day. After reading a travel blog from ...

... no one is even taking tickets at the tree house, Ali and Cam are disappointed having spent $40 buck on the admissions, yuck Alnwick was a big disappointment all round especially since we made a special trip to see it and it made for a longer way home  ...

... year and used as a museum and wedding/tourist destination, and has a treehouse restaurant and a garden.  The HP significance of Alnwick (pronounced "Anick," btw) is that they used it as a filming location for Hogwarts in the 1st two movies.  We walked around ...

... ; This was also closed so we walked through the gardens and grounds and had lunch in the cafe.  We returned to Warkworth via Alnwick and spent quite a while browsing and buying books in Barter Books that is located in the old railway station.