Castles and Coast

Our luck continues with the weather as we have just spent the last few days exploring Northumberland, as well as a brief stop in the city of Durham where people were visiting the impressive Cathedral, rowing boats on the river and lining the streets adorned with bunting, enjoying coffee in the sun.

Our English Heritage membership has guided us from castle to castle and I’ve taken recommendations from Martin Dorey’s book ‘Take the Slow Road’ on where to park up to admire the views across bays, beaches and seaside towns. Our journey has taken us to Amble, Warkworth Castle, Alnmouth bay, Craster, a windswept walk to Dunstanburgh Castle, Embleton bay, Low Newton, Beadnell Bay and onto Bamburgh. The roads have been great to drive and we have met some lovely local people, aswell as a couple from Germany who now live in Lincoln. They said it has taken them ten years to see as much of the UK as we’ve seen in the last couple of years. How lucky we are!

Very excited for today’s adventure. I am sat with a coffee waiting to cross the Lindisfarne causeway to Holy Island, a place I’ve always looked at on the map and wanted to visit. Poppy I think would be more than happy to stay fast asleep, soaking up the sun!