Lindisfarne Condensed

The day we went to Lindisfarne, our walk was somewhat curtailed by some quite major ongoing works to the castle, which meant a very narrow passageway to walk along with a lot of people negotiating the path - and Finn does NOT like to be hemmed in! 

We did manage a bit of a walk along the foreshore but it was pretty grey and cold.

Also, we were quite keen to stock up on goodies at Lindisfarne Winery - we were in Christmas shopping mode!  I can't remember exactly how many bottles we bought but we were pretty laden down which meant a much slower walk back to the car!

Cresswell Bay

The holiday park we stayed at was on Cresswell Bay, a beautiful beach that we'd discovered - by accident - the last time we came to the north east.   The park was lovely - so quiet - and I'm so glad we didn't read the trip advisor reviews in advance as they were shockingly bad, although we can't think why as we loved it here and have said that we would like to revisit.

The beach goes on for miles and we kept returning to it over the course of the week and, of course, it provided the scene of our first leg stretch as soon as we arrived.

It's a well used beach - although you wouldn't think so from these photos! - with plenty of car parks along it, nestled in the sand dunes.  And we could see plenty of other dog walkers taking advantage of the miles of sand.

We had to keep an eye on Finn as he kept disappearing up into the sand dunes for some reason!

All this space - and barely a soul on it.  Just how we like our beaches!

Yes, definitely somewhere we will return to in the future.

Angels of the North

This is one of the first photos taken on our holiday and pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the holiday!

We love the Angel!  We've passed her so many times now but thought we'd like to go and explore her and let the dogs (and us) have a leg stretch.

It was very cold and she's quite moody looking in the clouds!

I was surprised at the amount of people there - lots of dog walkers, lots of kids coming home from school.

I love this next photo so much, you can have it again.   You're welcome!

Holiday Randoms - Northumberland

I love holidays!  I love exploring new areas, or even re-exploring areas I've been to and love.  Northumberland is a very special place and we were lucky to go back in October last year, albeit for only a week, nowhere near long enough.  But we had a very action packed week and there are plenty of posts to follow obviously!

This is the "holiday randoms" post, showing us lounging about the caravan and eating mostly, although we did have a very exciting trip through the Tyne tunnel - I'm so easily pleased!

We cooked all week for ourselves but one night we had the simplest tea - pate on toast, with pate that we bought at Craster.  The last time we were up here, we ate outside - again pate on toast - but it was way too cold this time around! 

We did work our way through quite a lot of prosecco too!

I should say that we also ended up driving through the centre of Newcastle on the way up - over the Tyne bridge, but, sadly, no photos of that - I was too traumatised at having to drive through a city centre and not knowing which lane I should be in.  And Amanda was probably singing "Fog on the Tyne" and being totally unhelpful in the photographic department!