Micro mini overnighter to Northumberland...

 

Thursday evening and were both off on a weeks winter holiday - mostly at home!,  and a better forecast had G on her phone and found an airbnb for an evening in Northumberland, the plan was get down there around midday and get an afternoon cycle from Beadnell where we stayed, then next day stop at Bamburgh and ride east to Seahouses, both sections of beaches are spectacular and we have rode them several times and only approx 60 miles/hour 1/4 drive from home it feels like a world away...

We stayed here at 

Ideal accommodation and £60 a night good value ...

Unpacked and bikes ready we rode along to beadnell Limekilns and onto the huge expanse of sands...

Northumberland coast is famous for its big sky scenery and it did not disappoint...

At Lower Newton some refreshment at the Ship Inn and a lovely pint from there micro brewery...

On towards the castle and we halted at the beach end at a intact WW2 Machine Gun Pillbox...

Back home and G found a glass bottle stop, a nice find!..

We cut across a headland following the coastal path and spying a radar mast went for a look... cars parked outside suggesting it is either occupied or a business being run using the buildings so we continued...

Google search turned up this about the site...

Back at HQ the bikes were put back in the car and changed we drove along to Seahouses for a sit in Fish Supper, which was superb!, stuffed full we had a stroll around the harbour before heading back to our digs...

Film of our ride from Beadnell to Dunstanburgh..

Next Morning we walked around to the stable cafe on the premises and had a full English breakfast, fuelled for the day we drove west along to Bamburgh and free parking at the high carpark near the Golf Club we were soon on the bikes and down onto the coast...

Not taken many pics on the actual beach but loads of film footage, into Seahouses for an ice cream and we lucked out as the new Shannon Class Lifeboat was being launched today after a ceremony... 

£2.2 Million it cost with its launch system, which was donated by a elderly couple...

Here is a film of the Boat going down for its first launch...

Impressive bit of kit!,  after an ice cream we peddled back to Bamburgh and enjoyed a tail wind push along the beach...

Here is film of our beachride...

Packed up and heading home we parked up for a short walk to go look for the Bamburgh Cold War Royal Observer Corps (ROC) monitoring post (bunker) on the hill west of Bamburgh..

Easy to find it was sadly sealed with a metal grill - probably another result of the Covid masses taking to the countryside before everything re opened - remember the camping debacle on the coasts?, shame this as pictures of this post showed it in decent condition, Cloud posters etc on walls...

Great views up here from this post...

A fun 2 days away only an hour ish from home...

More soon...