The Bamburgh Castle Inn
Travel Blogs from Seahouses
Walking on the coast of Northumbria
... country homes.
One day we boarded a boat to cruise the Farne Islands to view the seals with their new pups. Another day we taxied over the causeway (attentive to the tide schedule) to Lindisfarne or Holy Island. There’s a town, a castle, a ruined priory, an old church and a winery that makes mead.
It was a great bunch of women. One of them might come to North Wales for a few days when I'm there in January.
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I can see Scotland from here
... station, and I was happy to arrive.
Berwick (say bear’-ik) boasts the only full circuit of town walls in England. In spite of the rain bucketing down, I walked some of them on the first day. Unfortunately, the museum at the historic Barracks was closed for the season.
Next day I had time before my bus to Bamburgh to go on a guided walking tour of this old town, and it turned out to be a private tour with ...
Out of the darkness and Into the light
... not receive enough hours and appeared to be jealous of me for taking his shifts. However whenever he was offered shifts he wouldn't want accept because he was too busy taking drugs in his smack den. It got to a point where he would leave aggressive notes about getting money for the Internet in order to fund his habits. On one particular occasion Anna agreed to pay the money at the end of the week when we got paid, which he said was okay. However to ...
Alnwick - Lions, Cellars, and Dukes!
As I mentioned in the last blog, you don't go to Holy Island just for the castle. The Alnwick castle on the other hand, is all you go for! It is the home of the Duke and Duchess of North Umberland, and they live in style. But right now, they are off at their summer home on the border of England and Scotland. So that means . . . Party time at the castle!! Well not really, but we do get to walk around parts of the castle that are ...
Lindisfarne - The Holy Island
... a stop on the side of the road at Beal where we would wait approximately fifty minutes for the 477 bus to Holy Island. The lady in the tourist office informed us that the Beal bus stop was in the middle of nowhere so we were not really looking forward to fifty minutes on the side of the road in the cold early morning. Fortunately, things were not as dismal as she had led us to believe because there was ...