Property News · April 29, 2016

Let’s move to Northumberland: for soft sand and craggy castles


Not even dark skies can dim the delights of Amble, Alnmouth and WarkworthWhat’s going for it? If a place still looks magical under glowering skies, a force nine gale and driving rain, it’s a keeper. Alnmouth Bay is a keeper. If a beach this stunning were 400 miles south, it’d be smeared in luxury apartment complexes, hooray Henrys and yachts and, thereby, ruined. Those 400 miles and glowering skies keep the beasties away, leaving the delights of Alnmouth, Amble and Warkworth for the rest of us. Those delights include a colony of puffins on the beautifully named Coquet Island; powdery sand on a beach straight outta Bermuda via the North Sea, and not another soul to share it with; ancient fragments from the age of the Venerable Bede; craggy castles lorded over by the Percys of Northumberland; tight-knit towns of huddled stone cottages and Norman churches; and, best of all, Spurelli’s ice-cream parlour in Amble. (I’m partial to an ice-cream in the driving rain – call me hardcore.)The case against Could do with some economic zip. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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