From Stirling, we drove
to our next hotel in Bamburgh via Falkirk and the new Millennium
Falkirk Wheel - a canal boat lift 60' high: amazing!
Then on to Edinburgh for
lunch in Princes Street. In the open air. In the warm. In
October!
Later, we arrived at Bamburgh
for our stay at this hotel.
The elegant Georgian exterior cannot prepare you for the
delights within...
We have two short videos,
taken inside the "Swans" room. Remember to turn
on the sound.
Bamburgh itself is a delight. A pretty village,
a massive castle and a wide sandy beach that goes on for miles
and miles... and not another soul in sight. Eat your heart
out Durban!
From Bamburgh, we toured
Northumbria and in particular Cragside, an Edwardian country
house, now owned by the National Trust, one of its claims
to fame being it was the first house in the country to be
lit by electricity.
Cragside
We also went on a boat trip
to the Farne Isles (forgetting to take the camera!) where
we saw seals and sea birds in their hundreds, and later
that day drove to Lindisfarne across the causeway which
is flooded by the sea at high tide.