Bamburgh Castle & Coast

Friday 16 June 2023

This morning we left our parking at Budle Bay with the lovely views of the coast, to head in a southerly direction.

I decided on a general bimble down the coast road to see what we could find.

First stop was just a short distance from Budle Bay to Bamburgh Castle.

It's a very familiar sight,  featured in lots of Northumberland promotional photographs and a fair few films. 

It's in a fantastic location with miles of soft golden sands and with the tide out Louis had a good run and a paddle in the pools.

The next stop was Seahouses, a little former fishing village with a small harbour quay.

The main activity in the harbour seems to be tourist trips to the Farne Islands for sea bird spotters.

It's only a small village and it didn't take long to see what there was.

The Co-op proved useful for some groceries.

I've arranged a pubstop for tonight in the next village called Beadnell. 

The pub looks quite nice, it's called the Craster Arms.

So we're dining out tonight.

We had a walk around earlier on and whilst there's not a great lot in the village to get excited about, it's nice enough and has another lovely coastline.

Tomorrow we'll head further south.

Bamburgh Castle

Bamburgh Cattle cooling off

Louis looking for somewhere to . . . . .

This could easily be somewhere much more
exotic than Northumberland

Seahouses harbour

Farne Island day trips

This was on a wall just above the Harbour Office
any ideas what it means ?

Dinner in the Craster Arms Beadnell