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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
... he cut our Internet access off anyway. At that point I really did wish I were him.
The second and possibly the worst was a women grown who looked very much like penguin from batman returns. There are no words in the common tongue that could possibly describe this person. All I can say is that after we left this god forsaken place, she sent me a message threatening to get the police onto me for stealing a digital box, even though it was in ...
Alnwick - Lions, Cellars, and Dukes!
... scene, the Quidditch scene, and the flying car scene were among some of them. For the flying car scene, something went wrong with guy operating the crane the car was attached to and he flung the car into a huge bush. The hole the car made in the bush hasn't fully grown back yet. Oops! The Duke just grit his teeth and kindly shrugged it off. After going in every little room we could, we took a stroll outside the castle over the Lion ...
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 ...