Castle View Bed and Breakfast
Travel Blogs from Morpeth
Ready for Departure
As dusk descends, the promised monsoon rains have not quite materialised but it is cold and very windy. It's good to know we will in hot and sunny climes quite soon.
Luggage is nearly packed. Judith has been scouring the shops for suitable light clothing and we have vast quantities of medical items including insect repellents and malaria tablets.
No room for the cricket bat I'm afraid.
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Hexham - absolut eine Reise wert!
... Fort, eine Rekonstruktion aus neuerer Zeit. Die einzelnen Felder wurden auf Tafeln – teilweise in Deutsch – gut erklärt. Ein Gang durch das sehr modern gestaltete Museum beendete unseren Besuch dieser historischen Stätte.
Als nächsten Anlaufpunkt am „Hadrian’s Wall“ wählten wir „Cawfields Quarry“. Ein kleiner See – Vorsicht, sehr tief – eingebettet in eine wunderschöne Umgebung und felsengesäumte Landschaft ...
City of Bridges
My first impressions of Newcastle, where I'm staying for a week, were impacted by the dismal weather in the first three days: either raining or misty. It’s hard to appreciate a place from under a brolly. It seems that the mist finds a way under the umbrella. Day 4 turned cold and brighter, but then came more dull days. One day while waiting for better weather, I went to see the new James Bond movie and then went and ...
Walking on the coast of Northumbria
... local church there are shrines and monuments inside and outside to this brave young woman.
Our walks covered a variety of terrains: beaches, sand dunes, country lanes, cliffside paths and fording "rivers" of water running over the beach to the North Sea. The wild and beautiful Northumberland coast provided good photo ops. There were some very interesting rock formations. And there were castles! Some in ruins, some fully renovated ...
Newcastle
... today was possibly the coldest so far, no rain, sun out but a dare say it didn't get over 6 degrees. Today we explored the city, it's not as well preserved with old fortifications like York but we did see the old gate tower that was the entrance to the old city but other then that there wasn't too much. Most of the buildings date back a hundred years or so and look amazing but nothing much older.
Day 155: Finally arrived in Scotland.
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