Chapter 20.

This time we decided to write whole text in English. You'll see how well it goes :D Yes we are scared and unsure but we think we should have done this a long time ago. Now the English-speaking friends don't have to guess what we are writing here. We'll see how hardworking we gonna be and would we continue this way with other chapters :D But at least this is a good start?

So in this chapter we gonna tell you about our Harry Potter Castle & Bamburgh Day Trip with Isuk Tours. On the way to castle we made a stop at place called Dunbar and made a little walk around town. Leaving Paisley it was raining and we were really sad and without any enthusiasm to go anywhere because of it. Our guide Ola were telling us that the weather's gonna be better after we pass Scottish and English border to side of England. We didn't believe her but....she was right! Rest of the trip it was sunny and pretty windy (not surprising anymore, we really don't complain about the wind after the Isle of Skye Trip... :D) but warm day. 

Close enough

It took about three hours to get us to Alnwick castle.. When we finally arrived we though about "Do we have enough time to see and try everything?!". Well yes, we made it. Almost. We missed only one or two activities because of their closing time at 4pm :''''( But everything else we saw were really interesting. Some of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" scenes were filmed here and we had to spot those points. 

Castle were marvelous, especially inside. We weren't allowed to take any pictures inside because people really live in this castle at times and it is their home. But you can just imagine all its richness and victorian décor.. Oh man those mirrors, carpets and lamps, gold and silver, diamonds... I'm speechless about the library (those books, oh wow ♥). It was maybe most beautiful one we ever saw. We had a little chat with one of the castle's guides. He told us some interesting facts about library and about castle in general. Library has for example some first edition books, like Charles Dickens, signed books by authors etc. Oh and there are five secret rooms in the castle (however couldn't find them). Could we live here?! We were constantly looking for the owners (we heard family had two boys age 29 and 27, handsome ones) but we hadn't any luck with that. We were left with wedding march playing only in our heads (so sad). Downtown Abbey serial were filmed in this castle, so if you are interested to see more inside.. Take a look ;)

Walking around castle we had chance to have broomstick training (with plenty of kids but it didn't stopped us. We enjoyed looking dump jumping around broom between legs). We visited Tree house (the biggest in Europe), ate some fish&chips (again) and walked around a little museums.
It was so weird to understand what people are telling you! Castle located in England and everyone there were talking in normal, English accent. But after a while we started missing Scottish one! Damn you Scotland.

Around 5:30pm we had to head back to the bus and continue our journey to next castle, Bamburgh. It was late and castle was closed at time we arrived. So we went to the beach (let's go to the beach-each ! ok ok shut up now song). Gosh it was beautiful! And if we had had swimsuits, we could go swimming. Water was cold but c'mon we are Finnish!

Finally we got a chance to take pictures with Scottish flag. And when we got such a possibility, we took everything from it. Lot's of pictures (pics with us and flag we gonna post later). Rest of the time we just walked around enjoying the scenery and collecting clams and trying to stand straight against wind covering our cameras from sand witch were flying around. 

Back in bus we had a small chat with bus-drivers while waiting other passengers. We were talking about Finland, trying to invite drivers to visit it some day. But we think we didn't make any impressions about it telling that "there are nothing to do! Go to Lapland and freeze over, people there don't talk to strangers....." etc. OK OK we tried our best but comparing Finland and Scotland is just..nonsense :D In Scotland, there are more that 1000 castles and in we have like...four of them (one in Turku, welcome ;)) #nohistory? But I guess Finland has it's own privileges anyway.

And now it's picture time again! But first a question: How we did with this chapter? Comment below, we don't bite ya ! (Ok maybe a little bite...grrr)

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