Budle Bay

First of all, happy New Year! After a wet and windy end to 2024, I think we’re all hoping for some clear and crisp winter days to start off 2025. We’ve got lots of exciting…

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Grassholme Reservoir

It’s a little known fact that the North Pennines are home to many reservoirs which welcome walkers. After our visit to Hury Reservoir last year, we’d vowed to visit a few more in the area,…

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Crook Hall Gardens

We’ve been National Trust members for quite a few years now, and had gotten around all of our local places within a year or two of becoming members. We’d kept the membership up though as…

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Bowes and Lady Myers

As freshly minted English Heritage members, we’re very excited to get out and explore some new local places which we’ve not yet discovered, being too stingy to pay the individual entry prices (I’ve clearly been…

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Exploring Northumberland with Cottages.com

I will never stop being grateful for the opportunities which have come our way since I started this blog and my Instagram account. Last weekend, we were lucky enough to be invited to stay at…

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Bowlees, Gibson’s Cave and Summerhill Force

The main attraction for walkers and day trippers in the Durham Dales in without a doubt the waterfall at High Force, widely regarded as one of England’s most spectacular waterfalls. But did you know that…

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Piercebridge Roman Bridge & Fort

The weather over the first two weekends of December has been pretty grim, at least, it has been where we are in North Yorkshire. We have had some lovely, crisp, sunny days – we’ve just…

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