{"id":11658,"date":"2016-04-29T22:30:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T15:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-northumberland-for-soft-sand-and-craggy-castles\/"},"modified":"2016-04-29T22:45:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T15:45:02","slug":"lets-move-to-northumberland-for-soft-sand-and-craggy-castles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-northumberland-for-soft-sand-and-craggy-castles\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Northumberland: for soft sand and craggy castles"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nNot even dark skies can dim the delights of Amble, Alnmouth and WarkworthWhat\u2019s going for it? If a place still looks magical under glowering skies, a\u00a0force nine gale and driving rain, it\u2019s a\u00a0keeper. Alnmouth Bay is a keeper. If a\u00a0beach this stunning were 400 miles south, it\u2019d 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\u2019s ice-cream parlour in Amble. (I\u2019m\u00a0partial to an ice-cream in the driving rain \u2013 call me\u00a0hardcore.)The case against Could do with some economic zip. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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