Tillmouth Park Country House Hotel Alnwick

... beach big, sandy and empty. took a few photographs.
Monday 19 got a boat "Serenity" from Seahouses to the Farne islands, about a 1 1/2 hour journey, saw lots of seals and the Longstone lighthouse where Grace Darling lived and rowed out to save the passengers on a stricken vessel which had drifted onto the rocks. no photos because I forgot the camera!

... with Sophie as usual! Ellie was running round full of beans. On Sunday Jeannie left early and we stayed and went for a walk with Marion Keith Jack and Ellie in the Rain!, we left there about 3p.m. and went into Edinburgh for a coffee before going to tghe airport to pick up Susan from the airport before returning to Jeannie's. On ...

... I’ve enjoyed our beautiful landscape of blues and greys and golds, goodbye cute little towns full of cobbles and closes, goodbye food that pushes the limits of my gag reflex, and goodbye to good friends that we’ve grown to love. I sincerely hope that we will return and glean a bit more of your richness.

... is joined to the mainland by a tidal causeway and as you would expect the locals have a few stories to tell of people who had timed their return to the mainland a little bit late only to be caught by the incoming tide. You get the sense that the Holy Islanders are a little sick of coming to the aid of what are essentially stupid people. One writer in the local news-sheet suggested they should let a couple drown to educate others on the peril of tidal crossings!

... too bad rain gear was in the car! Off to Alnwick via Preston Mill, Preston Mill is really kind of neat but certainly does not require a day trip a 10 min stop is all that is warranted, take some photos and back into the Car. We arrive at Alnwick late and it is very tourist attraction set up it;s a real disappointment, We had wanted to see it because it was one of the locations from Harry Potter. |It's a strange set up car park is shared with the garden center and the ...

... hilarious...on the sunday i played soccer after work with ppl from work before going to the slug for drinks followed by the shaftsbury walkabout yet again! and yes me trolleyed once again...i got on the wrong bus, fell asleeep, ended up in friggin willesden, which to this day i still do not know where it is, but i somehow found a bus depot and made it back to the hostel alive come 4am.....and well after this point i went on detox for ...

... and what do you know the bell rang.  I got very excited for some reason so Dave had a go and found it fun as well. Wanting some snow we headed to the Cairngorms where there was a ski resort, and figured there would be snow.  By this time though the weather had gotten worse with torrential rain and gale force winds.  Nothing was open when we got to the top and there wasn't much snow to be seen.  Disappointed we headed back down past a loch which ...

... what I had done. The guy next to me was laughing and told me that I had told the girl to 'Feck Off' with my hand gesture. The guy asked if I was American (...no, canadian) and said that it happens a lot, but it's always worth a laugh. The waitress came by, and said it had just occured to her that I was from 'America' ( - dammit, Canada, lol), we had a laugh, and that was that. We left shortly after that, and someone told us to check out this ...

... of town that we hadn't seen as of yet. Matty and i bought some ear phones as both of ours had finally been ruined from sitting in the bottom our our backpacks! haha. Life on the road without music, - i dont wanna think about it! haha... From other area's in Edinburgh, you can see the castle just towering over the entire city like a huge fortress. A really beautiful site :-) We got our prescious pre-packed sandwitches, and ate them in the park. Matty and i ...

... directly to Aberdeen. In retrospect, we should have taken the shoreline "tourist" drive, but hindsight being 20/20 and all that...We did pull off into a small town just south of Aberdeen for lunch. Stonehaven is a beautiful little town nestled on the North Sea. We had some lovely sandwiches for lunch, and had a nice walkabout before getting back in the car. Onward to Aberdeen.