An early start for our journey south but before then. We had to leave the cottage by 10am so went for a morning walk around Chillingham before setting off. The village is tiny but has a fabulous view over to the Cheviot hills. We headed South, stopping off at the Angel of the North and then stopping outside Durham to visit friends for lunch.
Some reflections of the trip -Northumberland is lovely but gosh there is so much to do. Often we visit counties and leave content we have done everything we wanted to do. Northumberland is different. We left with a list of things we haven't done yet. I'd love to see it out of school holiday season because it was rather busy and we felt like a trail of ants following each other. We are very grateful to the Spanish plume that has covered the UK this week and given us wall to wall sunshine every day.
My favourite day has to be visiting the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. We were surrounded by people to start with, but visiting the Priory first, then walk up to the lighthouse and then a 3 mile walk around the island was incredibly peaceful. I just wish we didn't have the drama before the Farne Islands because they are beautiful but we couldn't enjoy it. The golden sands of Beadnell beach was my favourite of the trip. I had goosebumps visiting the grave of Emily Wilding Davison. It was meant to be that I was reading a book on suffragettes during this trip. We live miles from the sea so this trip gave us a goose top up of sea air.
Northumberland has castles, beaches, hills, quiet countryside and lots of walking....a perfect holiday.
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