Are you going to try again ?
No, will be home by then.
Jan’s booked a week in a cottage near Wooler Northumberland.
Week on Friday start, looking forward to some trips around the area.
Any advice? Edinburgh is on the agenda, and I need to do some bird watching on the coast.
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Budle Bay (waders and sea ducks) Holy Island (top spot for spring migrants) Farne Islands - boat trip (seabirds and migrants)
If you want more detail, PM me and I’ll put something together.
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Bamburgh Castle is worth a visit as is Holy Island (good for bird watching too). Berwick Upon Tweed is also worth trip. Few nice fishing harbours such as Eyemouth worth a couple of hours and some fish and chips
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Jan’s a Geordie so knows the area a bit, I’m a well retired BSAC diving instructor and have dived around the area a lot but done nothing inland.
Bamburgh and Berwick sound good.
Eymouth and Craster definitely on the list.
And a trip to Edinburgh.
Bugger
Recommended too.
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Have you been to Cragside? If not then it should be a definite
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Edinburgh is a fcker to drive into. Personally I’d recommend ditching the car at Berwick jumping the train from there, There’s at least a couple of trains an hour, think the journey is around 45mins, nice run up the coast and it will drop you bang in the centre. Be a lot cheaper than parking in Edinburgh too.
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Sounds good, we take dogs on the train?
Yeah dogs are fine, it might limit what attractions you can visit when you are there though.
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A lifetime ago i stayed at the Linden Hall Hotel, if it is anywhere near what it was it may be worth a visit for food
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The wife wants to go to the Brancusi exhibition
at the Pompidou centre (cue angry old giffers reaching for their meds 
)
so, err, we’re going.
It might seem a bit decadent just nipping over, but it’s considerably faster for us to get to Paris than it was going up to my mother’s every Friday night. Never mind the almost inevitable rail replacement bus coming back on the Sunday afternoon.
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I like visiting the Pompidou centre and always appreciate how putting all the services outside left the interiors free for admiring the art.
I’m still cheered every morning by seeing our large print of The sorrows of the king (Matisse) bought there back in the late 80s.
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Budle Bay looks a definite. We’ve been to Holy Island many times in our youth when I lived in the Newcastle West End so I won’t get away with that.
Be nice to see / hear some Kittiwakes if there are cliffs.
We stayed in a cottage at Budle Bay a couple of years back. Lovey place. Nice walk around the coast to Bamburgh.
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Fab 
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Ideal end to a strange day.
Hope all is not too bad with you.