Bamburgh Castle

With the tides low we visit the castle at Holy Island and then drive to Coldstream, Scotland for lunch. The night is spent at Keswick in the Lake ...

... get our tour of the castle Friday, though we had an excellent introductory talk on it.  The inside keep (center) of the castle is a pele tower; comes from the word palisade; thus the expression “beyond the pale.”  Time Team will be ...

... up. Then Charles, the host of my B&B picked me up in Berwick and gave me a tour of Berwick before we came back down to Bamburgh. Now this is England! It is so green with farms stretching to the horizons. We are next to the castle on the North Sea. ...

... more than 400 years! Went to the back field - horses out there, the one on the left is one that Barbara bred. The castle has this beautiful glass sculpture of a horse. B&B outbuildings: pens? Stalls? Good cozy place to stay when there's no room ...

... one of an ancestor of Nancy at first escrow – could someone please give her this website-think I forgot.  Turns out Bamburgh Hall Farm that  I’m staying in used to be a Forster home.  The church next door (St. ...

... lived at the lighthouse.  He played the violin and life was full of music out there.   When I got back to Bamburgh, Charles and Barbara were preparing to move their sheep.  I had seen a truck with long narrow trailer there so I ...

... call the pokey stick.  It has a tiny scooper end and a long diamond-shaped pointed end.  It reminded me that in the castle, one of the interesting things I saw was an ear scraper.  It had a 2" handle of something like porcelain, a steel ...

... reading in the sitting room:  Vindolanda, English Castles, World Furniture, Gulls’ Eggs, Rhubarb and Mushrooms: Bamburgh in the1920s, the Geodiversity Audit and Action Plan: Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and European ...

... ago.  Pretty special couple.  We also inspected the buildings and mortar on the way home after the lecture about the castle walls and their construction.  It was an excellent lecture – Graeme is such a good speaker.  They had a ...

First day of field school on the Bamburgh Research Project. Wonderful farm breakfast – including eggs from their chickens.  They had some rhubarb topping for ?? that Barbara made.  Walked to work this morning about 9 am – a 5-minute ...