A pleasant trip out

Well that was a pleasant trip out.

We ended up going to Alnwick castle gardens - I have been wanting to go there ever since they opened and despite visiting Alnwick on a number of occasions I have never managed to get a visit to the gardens.

We took a wonderful picnic with us - Brie and cranberry sandwiches, prawn salad and fruit.
The weather was pretty good - warm but not hot, good enough to enjoy walking around in.

I was a little disappointed with the gardens as I had imagined they would be bigger than they were but there were some pretty cool water features in the serpentine garden that caught our imagination for a good while.

Afterwards we went to Barter Books in Alnwick - I love this place, it's one of the biggest second hand bookshops in Britain and I love mooching around in there. As usual I cam away with a couple of gems - a book on Origami, a James Herbert omnibus and the final book in the Hitchhikers Guide series "Mostly Harmless" which was very topical as they have just released the movie of "The hitchhikers Guide" I can't decide whether or not I want to see it as those that have either love or loathe it and I wouldn't want it ruined for me.