Sitting in bed with a cuppa, the rain hammers against the window. There’s a yellow weather warning and I’m definitely not 100%, so I’m cutting today’s walk early at Bamburgh. The Beadnell Lime Kilns offer temporary shelter. Built in 1798, […]
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I woke up in the early hours, sheets soaked with sweat. Am I coming down with something or just the hot curry last night? Regardless, I’m back in Amble before dawn, the weather a little less hostile than yesterday. The
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Previous day Before returning to Northumberland, there’s one final gap to fill, the eight miles from Seaham to Sunderland. Christmas revellers heading for Newcastle swarm the train platform at Middlesbrough with more antlers than I saw in Greenland. I leave
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Due to the strike by Northern Trains, my day begins with a 90-minute two-bus journey from Scarborough to Sandsend, so I’m the first person outside Greggs waiting for the door to open. Despite three years of pre-dawn breakfasts, I’ve only
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The trains are cancelled beyond Edinburgh due to adverse weather conditions — heavy rain and strong winds are forecast all day. Travelling up from home, it’s already 1 pm when I arrive at Filey, so there’s no chance of making
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Low tide reveals the causeway to the charming St Mary’s Lighthouse (1898). The expanse of dunes at Seaton Sluice, where I ran up and down as a child, is watched over by two replica naval guns at Blyth Battery. A
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