Blogs from Alnwick, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Oh, no, we wet the bed! So, our teeny, tiny room has a teeny, tiny skylight window which we have been opening as wide as we can to try to let some air into our stuffy, windowless room. We had it open all night without any problem and headed down to breakfast leaving it open. While we were at breakfast, we were looking out the window at the deteriorating weather bemoaning the fact that it looked like we would be wearing our raincoats again when we headed out. We finished breakfast and I headed up to our room while Bernie stayed behind to settle up our bill. I walked into the room and straight away I could hear it … drip, drip, drip. What’s dripping? OMG, the rain is coming in the skylight window and dripping ... read more

This morning Kath made a cooked breakfast for us all. We kept asking what we could do to help, but she insisted that she had it all under control. She did at least let Bernie juice the oranges. While we were waiting for breakfast we tried to share as many tips as we could think of about Lisbon, Sintra and Porto as Robin and Sandra are off to Portugal on Monday. They are doing a tour but are travelling to Sintra independently and may have some free time in Lisbon and Porto. Hopefully we have given them some information that may prove useful to them. After breakfast we packed out bags to head off to Northumberland for a few days. We are trying to wring the last little bit out of our holiday before we fly ... read more

We decided to take the motorhome out for a few days to check everything was working okay before we ventured overseas to meet up with over 40 Carthago motorhome owners in Denmark. So yesterday we arrive at a nice quiet site called River Breamish which is near Alnwick. Well when I asked where the site was Mike insisted it was in Beamish and we could visit the Beamish museum, so as you can tell mine and Mike’s sense of direction leave much to be desired. Up relatively early as we have had a few really early mornings recently with me doing a 2am - 6am shift at Samaritans and then some late night zoom calls on strategy and then to cap it all an early start at Garth Prison (as a Samaritans and not an in-mate ... read more

Und noch ein Busausflug. Dieser hatte jedoch nur zwei Stops und damit zwei Hauptziele. Den Vormittag verbrachten wir auf der heiligen Insel Lindisfarne, die als erster dokumentierter Ort im Jahre 793 von den Wikingern überfallen und ausgeraubt wurde. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindisfarne_(Insel) Es ist eine Gezeiteninsel, bei der die Straße bei Flut von Wasser überflutet und damit unpassierbar wird. Solche Orte gefielen der Kirche, da durch die Flut zweimal täglich die Umgebung „durch Gott gereinigt“ wird und alles Weltliche damit weggespült wird. Heute ist die Insel jedoch weder heilig noch mysteriös. An einem sonnigen Tag wie heute ist sie ein knallvolles Strand Resort. Wir haben einen Spaziergang um die Insel am Wasser entlang gemacht, haben Robben gesehen und konnten so dem Hauptteil der Massen, die sich im Dorf und an den Stränden stapelten, entgehen. Es war ein glorr... read more

Camping adventure continues in the North East I have added the photos of the puffins which I could not do yesterday - don’t they look cute - you want to take them home. We wake up and decide that we are going to go to Lindisfarne so after a bacon butty made by the fair hands of Mike (told you he is doing all the cooking), we jump in the car and off we go. As we did not look at the tides it could have been a wasted trip but we were really lucky and the tide was out. So we drive over the causeway and park up. I thought I had taken Mike here before and kept telling him he has been here before but it appears last time we were not as lucky ... read more