Northumberland - heading home . . . or not
If you have to be out of your self catering flat by 10am, and you've got a long drive back, you'd sensibly get going pronto. Ok, you might still need to nip to the shops to get your cat minder a thank you present. You might just allow yourself to be grabbed for the Macmillan fund raising coffee morning; a quick digression in a worthy cause.
You probably don't decide that you've not see Alnmouth beach enough in daylight (this is the view across the Aln estuary, to the hill where St Cuthbert first received Northumbrian converts to Christianity, hence the cross).
Having gone down to the beach (the sea was much rougher than it had been earlier in the week), we decided that we would go for a paddle after all (not having done so earlier in the week).
Then we finally got round to heading south . . . and digressed along Hadrian's Wall to see the Temple of Mithras. Fortunately, it's only small.
The altars are copies, as the originals have been moved to a museum. At least EH restored the appearance of the site . . . one for fans of 'The Dragon Waiting'.
And then, finally (sensibly) we really did head home.
You probably don't decide that you've not see Alnmouth beach enough in daylight (this is the view across the Aln estuary, to the hill where St Cuthbert first received Northumbrian converts to Christianity, hence the cross).
Having gone down to the beach (the sea was much rougher than it had been earlier in the week), we decided that we would go for a paddle after all (not having done so earlier in the week).
Then we finally got round to heading south . . . and digressed along Hadrian's Wall to see the Temple of Mithras. Fortunately, it's only small.
The altars are copies, as the originals have been moved to a museum. At least EH restored the appearance of the site . . . one for fans of 'The Dragon Waiting'.
And then, finally (sensibly) we really did head home.