Market Cross Guest House Belford

Arrive in Belford after a 5 hr car journey, including a beef baguette in a nice pub en-route. This is already sounding like "small earthquake in Uraguay - not many killed" Found the cottage and unloaded the car.Really nice place; Ric*********** stayed in the vilage in 1966; probably not much else happenned since then. Drove into Bamburgh and strolled along ...

Great day of cycling through the Scottish Boarders. Coasted through the beautiful Tweed Valley. But then the climb began around Selkirk. Several km’s leading up to the town, going straight up through the town, and for several km’s out of the town! By then we were at the highest point around and had wonderful 360degree ...

... it. There are old coal mines nearby and the salt and coal was exported through the harbour at Pittenweem.

That basically completed a loop of eastern Scotland as we headed over the Forth Road bridge and around Edinburgh on the bypass road to travel to our next stop Holy Island.

Holy Island is famous for very little other than a little tome known as the Lindisfarne Gospels, Viking attacks and great crab sandwiches,more about them later. The ...

... told them to change it) where our tour guide pointed out all of the locations used in the films including an entrance to Hogwarts, Hagrid’s Hut and the entrance to the Forbidden Forest, where the flying car in COS crashed into the Whomping Willow, where Harry learned to fly, and where Ron insulted Hermione (“it’s leviOsa, not levioSA”) causing her to run into the bathroom with the troll in SS.  It was so cool to be there and the grounds ...

Last day in Northumberland today. Tomorrow we fly from Newcastle to Paris for four days there. It's been really great here, mainly just spending time with friends and poking about the countryside. This is a beautiful part of the UK. The scenery is superb, and Newcastle itself is a moderm city that respects ...

Early Sunday evening, 24 May. We're at Ian & Glenis's home near Longframlington, in Northumberland. It's right in the north of England, a stone's throw from the Scottish border. We arrived yesterday, eventually, after cancelled and delayed Qantas flights, long slow security checks at Heathrow's Terminal 5, interruption to luggage arrival at the airport at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and finally Hertz not having a car available despite having all the paperwork for ...

1. One of the border abbeys in Scotland. The others include
   Jedburgh, Melrose, and Dryburgh. I sadly did not have time to visit them
   all, but I am glad that I got to visit ...
   Kelso, Scotland, United Kingdom deacnightowl88

... Jeannie's. The kids were all excited and so were we. I hope the pictures tell a good story, we all without exception had a great night. The hotel was lovely and the band were fab. We all had an excellent time. On the Sunday we went down to the beach to meet Marion Keith Willie and Kath and the kids as they were staying in the hotel for the night. We went back to Jeannies for breakfast .Susan and Michael flew back home Marion and Keith took them to ...

... Vikings ('heathens' according to the Anglo-Saxons who resided there) raided it in 793AD, marking the start of Viking Age in the UK. The island was also once home to a monastery, which was the base for Christian evangelising in the North of ...

Last weekend Katherine took us on a tour of the Borders district (her work district) and it was great it is a lovely area down there. We went to the Kelso abbey and then drove to Jedburgh and went to Carter's Rest where Katherine mother use to work a few years back. We also went to the Jedburgh abbey and that was amazing. We had a fun drive back and by the end of the day everyone was very tired. One ...