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Walking on the coast of Northumbria
Based in Bamburgh, our group of 10-plus-guide Walking Women were introduced to the region by learning about the local heroine, Grace Darling. In 1838, at age 22, she and her father rowed out from their lighthouse and rescued several survivors from a shipwreck. In the museum dedicated to her we saw the actual coble they rowed, and it's big and heavy – how she did it in stormy seas, I don’t know. Unfortunately, she died four years later. ...
I can see Scotland from here
... credit on my Oyster card to get onto the Tube, so that saved time; I got onto one train for one stop, then up and down stairs to the next train, which took me to Kings Cross; a bit of a walk to the rail station, found my platform and reached my coach with 10 minutes to spare! Miraculous, really. Glad to be on my way to Northumbria. It was an express train to Berwick Upon Tweed, last stop before Scotland. My B&B was right across from ...
Out of the darkness and Into the light
... I have ever met in my whole twenty-six years on this earth. Never before have I worked in a place so devoid of happiness than when I entered the Dunstanburgh Castle Hotel in Embleton. The hotel itself looked like and old people's home and Immediately I came to the conclusion that Anna and I were the only normal and logical people who worked there, whilst the rest were robots trained in the art of dining room butters and incessant *****ing.
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Alnwick - Lions, Cellars, and Dukes!
... to the public for the rest of the year. Like the dining hall, the library and the study. Everything was extravagent, but there was also a personal touch as well with pictures of the duke's family. The Duke and Duchess have two sons and two daughters and seven dogs! This castle has been in their family for over 700 years. Last year one of the duke's daughters got married, and she was escorted to the castle in a stunning black and ...
Lindisfarne - The Holy Island
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Lindisfarne Priory was founded in 634 by St. Aidan, who arrived from the monastery run by St. Columba in Iona, Scotland. The thriving priory rapidly became one of the most important centers of early Christianity in England. However, the priory had a roller coaster existence. It was abandoned due to Viking raids ...