Visit to `Cuddies Gool` in Berwickshire

 

Back out on the Royal Enfield Classic 350 and the quiet Berwickshire country roads are perfect for this bike, it really is in its element on these windy country roads with trail tyres fitted ready for any farm mud or loose gravel you may encounter...

You may remember we visited this when out in the Willys Jeep last year, but I wanted to revisit here as a fascinating wee place...

Words and history in the film...

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Roadside history - back metal detecting at Site X!

 

I packed the metal detector and spade in a pannier on the Enfield 350 and rode to do a quick half hour detecting at Site X for some more trinkets, and as always was not disappointed with 8 Hispano 20mm cannon shells...  the wood keeps delivering!

Film..

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Roadside History - WW2 Home Defence Flame Fougasse sites

Starting a series for films about roadside history I started the ball rolling with this film about the WW2 Home Guard Flame Fougasse sites on Danskine brae and Carfrae brae... 

Some of the pics included in the film...

 

The men who would have had to operate these sites if we had been invaded in the summer of 1940...

Danskine...

Carfrae...

Longniddry...

And the film...

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Fatbike beachcombing at John Muir Country Park

 

Spring equinox and now clocks have changed the longer days of daylight are on the way!, I love this time of year as get a real bus as soon be warmer weather and more daylight to get out and enjoy hobbies...

Today we went a beachride along Belhaven Beach and John Muir Country Park, we tailed friend Kieth into the park but he had no seen us both behind! and went up through the dunes while we headed for the woods, and bumped into more friends out a cycle before continuing and stopping at the wee pond it was great to see a lot of toads, after watching them we rode to bullet hill for a rummage then round the woods and out onto the Hederwick sands where I picked up a nice Hispano 20mm shell from WW2...

Not many pics today sorry but plenty of film as always,

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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...

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