A warm sunny day in Northern Ireland for our visit to castle ward

WeCWe werehwere reallytreally luckyelucky with the weather today which was perhaps even better than the forecast and especially useful as we had done our first online booking for a national trust visit. This was the last of the large properties that we have visited in Northern Ireland cover the years. It was a bit hard going for Mandy with shingle oaths, a mix of wheelchair and walking, thankfully the present show rooms are all on the ground floor, the gardens still looked great and temp was about 21c. It's our last night in Ballymena tomorrow I intend getting shots at the bus station before we head west to Derry. The weather will be warm still but more cloudy and a chance of rain after lunchtime. I'll have most of the next day so no panic but I do have my cheap Chinese brolly ready. I think we have exhausted the dinner menu at our present hotel but I'm sure we'll manage, they had all the hens running around the grounds when we got back from Downpatrick, we came back via the busy strangford ferry and recalled lots of earlier trips when we had stayed on the ards peninsular. I had an awfultime this morning battling with Amazon, they treat people like something they have tried in on the pavement, if people were to use the PMP shop we could drop the Amazon shop which is nerve wracking and takes a huge chunk out of sales which comes used to further our film coverage.