Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Hadrian's Evil Wall

Once we finished in Edinburgh we retraced the road and went back to Alnwick Castle which we had intended to visit before Edinburgh but it was closed. We were the first ones in and though we only went here because the exterior was used in Harry Potter movies 1 and 2, we were incredibly impressed by the inside. It was gorgeous and still is a family home to the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland along with their children in the winter months. Unfortunately we were not allowed to take photos inside which ended up being the case in alot of places. Once outside we started recognising some areas like the place they used in the first film for the flying lesson.

Alot of the areas you knew but had later on been digitally remastered as well. After Alnwick we drove to pretty much the middle of nowhere England in search of Hadrian's Wall. This was just an old stone wall that use to cut through the centre of England kinda. Eventually it popped up but mum kept driving even though I'd tell her to stop. Finally she listened to me and we got out, climbed over a fence/gate mechanism and took a few photos. Hooray.
In hindsight this was the biggest waste of time because it then had taken us a few hours and a stop in a severely weird town, with a giant bear made of hay, to get to the main road. Our next stop was to be Beatrix Potter's house, the author of Peter Rabbit and so on. The area around us while driving, the Lake District, was gorgeous but had us feeling so sick.
With a bit of help we found Potter's house which we had to use a ferry to get to. Clever lady put her house literally on a hill far away from everything. We arrived and were about an hour too late to buy tickets. Thanks to Hadrian's Wall. We did however get to poke our heads into the old cottage and have a look around the outside and the garden. And it was special when there were rabbits in the garden. Everything around this house you had seen before in her pictures it was so surreal at times.
After the house we just made our way to Lancaster to stay the night it wasn't anything special and in a way was a bit weird.

No comments:

Post a Comment