I hadn't expected this weekend to be blog-worthy. Now that spring has finally decided to grace us with its presence, I've started my weekend hiking adventures again. But, most of the places I go now are places I've already been, the ones that are easy and inexpensive to get to (Rothbury, for example, is a particular favorite). And most of the entries I would've written would be the same: the countryside is beautiful, I love Geordies, OMG HISTORY AND BABY SHEEP etc etc. This weekend, my plan was to revisit Alnmouth, a beautiful little town on the coast (at the mouth of the Aln river...get it?) that I visited and blogged about last year. I was going to walk up the coast to Dunstanburgh, which I have also blogged about before, and then back down, taking
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