Northumberland + Edinburgh

Hunnymonster

mandi wrote:

The signs that notifly visitors of high tide, are on A4 sheets, and I suppose so peolpe just dont think!!!! The causway is literally one road in , same road out. and its quite long............. I didnt fancy getting stuck so left 2 hours beforehand...........

The times are safe crossing times - the big problem is as you say that non-local people don't take notice, and they get caught out by it because it's unusual to have a tidal access in the UK. The road isn't that long - at least when I last crossed it by bicycle it didn't seem very long to me....

Anyway - yes the crossing times are on A4 sheets - but they are announced by much larger signs and there is no excuse for saying "I didn't see them". The system has worked well since 1954 when the causeway opened - only a few dozen careless idiots caught every year.

Hunnymonster

Becles wrote:

It's next to Royal Quays Outlet centre which is good for shopping bargains.

And if you go to http://www.royalquays.info/ and sign up for the (free) VIP card there are some outlets that give you additional discount, or freebies. They take an age to send the card though so order now for April

Poppycat

I forgot about this post we had a smashing time I post some pictures when I have time, We stayed in a great cottage and people though of everything for us, including information about places to go

We went to the following places.

Banburgh castle (2 miles way from sea houses)
Holy island
Edinburgh
Alnwick castle
Farne islnad didnt go on islands though we got wet slightly with sea spray
The beaches are beautiful and the dunes go on for miles. Only wasted day was our last day it was wet and cold but we did go for awalk on the beach in the afternoon.

We also went to the roman fort Alberia on the way up and stopped at Newcastle for retail shopping and then angle of the North.

Thanks for all your input

Becles

Glad you had a good trip. I love the beaches too :cool:

We were just talking about retiring the other day (long way off as we're only early 30's!), and I said I'd love to buy a cottage on the coast up there.