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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 ...
I can see Scotland from here
... river to arrive at Berwick station.
LS Lowry (1887-1976), a famous English painter, was especially fond of Berwick. There's now a Lowry Trail around town, with panels and his artwork.
I met three other women at the bus stop, all of us bound for the walking holiday. So much rain lately in this area had forced the blockage of the coastal road just south of Bamburgh, so we were lucky to be stopping at Bamburgh.
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Out of the darkness and Into the light
... month I was fortunate for none of the full time restaurant staff ever spoke to me. I do not lie comrades, for many times I would enter the vicinity to be greeted by a stony silence. This silence was to change when I unfortunately enraged another staff member for putting sugar in the wrong size cup. I ask you not to judge me comrades; I understand that this is an error beyond evil and that I should be punished. However I was fortunate that my ...
Lindisfarne - The Holy Island
... hermit so he moved to a nearby smaller island and built a hermitage. At fifty, he was asked by the church and King to give up the hermit life and become a traveling bishop. Near the end of his life, Cuthbert went back to his hermitage where he died peacefully. His body was then carried back to Lindisfarne for burial. Hence, the statue.
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Warkworth - A Very Thin Place
... But even better than that was an encounter I had with a person I met while walking around inside. Just as I was getting ready to climb some very uneven, somewhat treacherous stone steps to the second level, I noticed a man helping an old lady down those same steps. I asked if I could assist them, and when I did, we struck up a conversation. The lady told me a very touching story. Fifty years ago, when she was a young woman, ...