And here we are, Brexit Day, ok maybe not something that I should write about in my blog. What I should be saying is "Here we are, the last full day of our holiday", and what a great week it's been. Apart from about 30 minutes of light rain when we were deep in the Northumberland National Park earlier this week, it's been dry as a bone. Many days with sunny spells, and when there has been cloud around it's been medium and high cloud with loads of texture which really adds to any photos that you take.
Anyway, less waffle. To visit Holy Island (or Lindisfarne) you have to time it right as the tide flows over the causeway that links the island to the mainland for half of each day; so time it wrong and lets hope you are good at swimming! Today, the time to cross was from around 9am to 5pm so all through the daylight hours, which isn't always the case as earlier this week from around mid-day to 7pm was out of bounds for anything except fish and sea birds.
Unfortunately the castle isn't due to open for another 2 weeks, which was to be honest a tad frustrating as the last time we were on the island it was in the middle of an 18 month closure for restoration work, and the first time we ever visited, it was so packed in the castle that we came back out after about 15 minutes. Who knows, maybe one day we might get to experience the castle in full.
However, as mentioned earlier the cloud formations most of the time this week have been awesome, and today was possibly the best of the week. So with all there is to see on the island it was a great time for taking photos. We were on the island for 3hrs and managed to walk around 4.5 miles so the Hot Chocolate and Mocha that we had in a cafe wouldn't even touch the hips.
A different story though on the route back as we diverted down to Alnwick to pick up some food and decided whilst down there to have lunch in McDonalds. Now the burger and fries, and especially the banana milkshake would certainly result in a loosening of the belt.
The drive back to Beadnell was only 20 minutes or so, we got back to the cottage around 4pm and I left Donna to start some packing and ventured down to the harbour to do some time-lapses. In total I was there for around an hour before the light had faded so just enough left in the sky to enable me to walk back across the beach and 'home' to the cottage. Certainly a week that we will remember fondly.
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