Deserted beach at Seahouses, Northumberland :)
Beautiful Wardy, put me there now please! (must be getting to the end of the school hols! ;D ;D )
Oh wow, I want a house overlooking that beach with no one for miles around, lovely photo Wardy :D
DP, I know how you feel, it's always the last week that I can't cope with ;) ;D
Jess love having them home, but now they are getting older harder to find things to do with them, if it doesn't involve a screen they are just not interested!!! And I hate having to fight for MY computer! ;)
Wardy is there a pub nearby?? ;D
Do you have a link to it, sounds like a perfect getaway weekend for me and Mr Pinks!!
Looks fabulous, Wardy. Is there much for kids to do in surrounding area?? Really appeals for hol spot next year!! Lottie ;D
Just did a route plan, and it reckoned it would take us 8 hours and 15 mins to get there :o Not a weekend thing for us then! ;D
Wow!! Triffic photos Wardy..went there earlier this year and it really is lovely. Also loved the countryside in Northumberland. All round a great part of the country!!
Thanks Wardy! Sounds like heaven, not one for clubs!! Last time I went to a club was my hen night, many moons ago...
Lottie ;D
eee Wardy, I just love going to Seahouses and Holy Island. Its an afternoons trip for me and we were last there in May. It was a freezing cold day on Holy Island but the skies were clear and it was peacefull. I did get a chill in my eye that same day and ended up with 'red eye'. silly billy!!! Worth a visit Doris and Lottie. If you come up this way you got to tell me tho!!!!
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Darn tooting, Carol!! Will pitch tent on lawn..... ;) Lottie
For Wardy  as a reminder of Lindisfarne, Holy Island!!!
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/lowrieT/IMG_0131.jpg)
We went to Northumberland for a week or so a couple of years ago and keep meaning to go back. Beautiful place inland as well as by the coast, and lots of interesting 'Roman Britain' sites.
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Oh yes its a lovely county and full of History!!  But just keep on going and you get an even bigger surprise at the sheer beauty of the Scottish Borders, but sshhhh its a secret, dont want everyone knowing about this place.
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Stop it! you're making me home sick. :(
Aw Glyn, I would love to see your beautiful adopted home. Canada looks just beautiful in all the Pictures I have seen of the place. Maybe, just maybe in a couple of years, I will take the plunge and be real brave and go up in a plane and land there for a few days!!!!  ;D ;D ;D ;D Dont want to be away from this beautiful country too long!!!
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Glad you had a good holiday Wardy. 8)
Wardy,
You have filled me with feelings of guilt and shame :-[
I live less than an hours drive away and it is easy to forget
what is on the doorstep.
I feel a visit at the weekend with kids, dog and picnic is long
overdue!
Debs :)
Well well thats only a half hour drive from me Wardy and if you had come that
extra half hour..... beaches a plenty........off hand about 15 castles within a 20
drive........ 2 minutes down the road from me is the world famous Bass rock
which you can go out to on boats.....If your energetic you could have climbed
North Berwick Law from the top you see right up the Forth both road and rail
bridges and Edinburgh castle........5 minutes away from East Fortune airfield
which hosts the Mueseum of Flight prime exhibit being Concorde (psssst don't
tell lottie but there is a microlight school of flying oppesite it)...better stop
rattlin on am biased Scotland is a very beautiful place East Lothian is the county
I live in.................but its better known as the "Garden County" ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Lovely pics Wardy. When I came back to Northumberland coast on Sunday it was foggy and has been every evening and morning since!
Hi Wardy,
Excellent photos! Was in Northumberland for the first time in August this year, certainly won't be the last time! We stayed in a cottage on an organic farm, the kids had two absolutely beautiful border collies to play with every day and I could dream about owning the farm! We had some of the best fish and chips we've ever tasted in Seahouses, made all the better by eating them straight after a quite bouncy trip to the Farne Islands. I used to say if I won the lottery I'd move to Cornwall, but after going to Northumberland I'm not so sure now...
Cheers,
Rob. ;)
Lots of people move to Cornwall when they retire (I used to live there), they very often get isolated, one of them dies or falls ill, and the other ends up stuck. If you're younger, you might have kids to think about; it's the lowest wage area in the country, with very few jobs, and a very long way from universities etc. You can certainly make a go of it, but you really do need to be able to become part of the local communty. Not everyone has the skills for that. The same probably goes for any remote area. I eventually left because I wanted to study, and the facilities just weren't there.
It was nt that long since i went myself and i can reccomend the Craster arms at Beadnall for food and drink certainly
a good mix for Caravans and very nice houses to rent for the week
carl
Beatiful pictures
the beach at Bamburgh was very nice too just incase Alnwick (pronounced anick byt the locals or anyone whos knows it) was a beautiful place to visit
Aaaaaaaaargh!! You're coming to visit my lottie! I'm so embarrassed I haven't done a thing with it! I'd be dead pleased though ;D ;D
I don't know where to start with it. I'm stuck. I'm kurfuffled. Might be getting some old fence posts from a family member,if there are any lying about after he's had a new fence put in. That would be the biggest boost...getting a fence. Then I could have some chickens and they could help with the weeds and ...and ...and...Â
You didn't meet the locals then?
Rob, that cottage sounds ideal for OH and son! You wouldn't care to share a name and agent would you? ;D
I visited Northumbria for the first time at the end of July and the coach trip co-incided with 'The Tall Ships Race' - I loved my visits to Lindisfarne, Holy Island, Bamburgh Castle, Alnwick, & Craster - where they still smoke the herrings which now come over frozen from Norway I think they said, and found the whole area 'magical'......
The day spent in Gateshead where all the beautiful ships were moored was an incredible day and we were 'swept along' with thousands of others in the excitement of it all....the Millenium Bridge (winking bridge) was a fabulous sight and I was lucky enough to cross over it twice in the course of the day - the second time, there were so many people on it that security people & police were ensuring that everyone kept on the move and no-one then was allowed to take photos, as they had been earlier in the day...think perhaps they were 'fearful' for peoples safety because of huge numbers.
I definitely would like to return to the area - so very beautiful.