I have been to... Bamburgh
I'm just back from a weekend away with friends to Bamburgh. It is a few years since we were last year (before lockdown), and then it was summer and we were swimming in the sea. As the sea temperature is currently 11 degrees, we gave that a miss. Even in wetsuits it is a bit chilly.
The castle bathed in the evening sunshine.
And north towards Lindisfarne in the distance. I love the beaches in Northumberland, they are huge when the tide is out, and very empty.
All the various centuries of construction piled up on each other!
Lindisfarne in the distance again.
The Christmas display was uo already in the castle, themed around myths and legends. These are fairy christmas trees. Avoid dancing around them nine times or you'll be off to Faerie, never to be seen again.
The Laidley Worm! Which may or may not bear some resemblance to the Anglo Saxon 'Beast of Bebbanburg'.
A winter fountain populated with Skelpies.
The Laidley Worm, and the evil Green Witch.
The windmill at the end of the East Ward, beyond the Norman keep. The old entrance (St Oswalds gate) is here.
And back up the curtain wall towards the main part of the castle. The keep is in the right, and before that is the Neville Tower, named after Warwick the Kingmaker. You can rent it out, for a handsome fee.
I also called in at the Armstrong Museum in the grounds.
There was this rather nice little car in there.
And it has many wrecks of aircraft recovered from the sea nearby. This is a Spitfire cockpit. There were also bits of a Hurricane, a Dornier and an He 111.
A rather nice 4" naval gun, wedged in a bove a turboprop engine extracted from a Gannett.
4" gun breech.
Very annoyingly my phone battery ran out at this point, so I missed taking a picture of the excellent (model) Vickers Light Tank in purple brown/smoke grey Caunter camo.
Anyway, it was a pleasant weekend away as ever and a lovely part of the world.
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