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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 ...
Och aye laddie and lassies
We decide to go straight up to Scotland to catch Karlyn's aunty before she leaves to go to Canada. Punch the coordinates in and away we go. Straight up the A1. Hoping the Sat Nav will get us close. 4.5 hr trip up the motorway is fairly easy and we make good time. There are heap of trucks on here all going flat out. We stop on at the border for a piccy, och aye da noo. Oh and by the way it's ...
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!
... along the River Aln. Everyone back in the day used this bridge if they were heading to Scotland. Many times Scottish invaders came over this bridge to attack the castle. There is a lion on the bridge with his tail sticking straight out, so if you are coming to the castle, you see the mighty face of the lion, but if you are leaving, you get a view of the backside of the lion, with his tail straight out waving goodbye to you. I guess ...
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