Last week in UK - continued

Wednesday, 11th July 2014.

Another beautiful day but still cold enough to need to wear a fleece. We went to Berwick on Tweed to see if we could fix up a banking issue and for Brian to have a hair cut. His is very short and just the way he wanted it and it too was cheaper than he pays in Canberra.
Had coffee and cake at the restaurant associated with the theatre - you always get good coffee at these restaurants - and then walked around the ramparts which, according to the information panels, were the most expensive and also the least efficient to be undertaken in the reign of Elizabeth 1st. They were built to defend England against the Scots. It provides a wonderful green space to walk around the town and
on a sunny day you couldn't find anything better to do. One of the most striking images in Berwick is this fantastic viaduct. We saw a train go across it, so even though it looks pretty old, it is still operational.

Came back to Seahouses and walked across the golf course and beach to the villageof Beadnell. Discovered a very nice pub there - Craster Arms. 


Thursday, 10 July 2014

Busy today with blogging update and preparing to move out tomorrow for Newcastle and onward on Saturday to Amsterdam. 

One last comment today was to note that the cottage at Seahouses has been the only place in the UK where there is no traditional 'sink bowl' which we have noticed is a great UK tradition even though it is in the majority of cases redundant. The one case we did observe where the sink bowl was not redundant was at Black Swan Cottage which had still retained the old large Belfast sink.