Property News · August 8, 2014

Let's move to Newcastle, County Down


‘The town must be one of the most magically positioned seaside resorts in the British Isles’What’s going for it? Those whose cloth ears are gummed up with will.i.am or Rita Ora might have forgotten Percy French’s hit 1896 tune “…where the mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea”. Shame on you. A quick lyric precis: fancy London’s all well and good, but you can’t beat the simple things in life. Like a sand dune. Or a dry-stone wall. Or a 1930s lido. Where the mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea is right here, and Newcastle has sand dunes, dry-stone walls and 1930s lidos aplenty. The town must be one of the most magically positioned seaside resorts in the British Isles, the great, gruff aforementioned mountains above you and, in front, three miles of white golden sand cupped round Dundrum Bay. These days, a multimillion-pound new seafront of avant garde bollards is helping to reposition the place as an “activity resort”, with something to stir the body parts of the hyperactive (mountaineering), moderately active (the Royal County Down Golf Club, routinely voted one of the world’s best) and the barely active (free Wi-Fi on the prom).The case against I can’t find a thing to grizzle about. The place even has a spirited, nonsectarian ethos. Perhaps a few too many pebble-dashed bungalows. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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