It’s now Friday morning and we are packing up for our two-hour thirty-minute drive to Whitby where we stay for the next six nights in another lighthouse. The lighthouse is isolated – no cell service and no internet. So for the next six days there will be only one or two blog postings when I have time to drop by somewhere with internet and send an update.
Brief post today with some pics. Dry in the morning, so Elaine and Dorothy did their walk. By 8:30 it was raining, and it continued all day until late afternoon. We thought about staying home and relaxing, but eventually we decided to drive north to Berwick-upon-Tweed to visit a few museums there. It’s about a 45 minute drive. Berwick (pronounced Berrick) is is a busy city just below the Scottish border. We visited the Berwick Barracks and Fortifications which is administered by English Heritage. There are three museums on site, and we visited all three: the King’s Own Scottish Borderers Regimental Museum, the Berwick Museum and Art Gallery, and the By Beat of Drum’ Museum charting the history of infantrymen in the British Army. All were interesting in their own way. After touring, we hopped back in the car, stopped at a Marks and Spencer Food Hall for a quick lunch, and headed back to Craster.
Click Pics to Enlarge and Read Some of the Interesting Museum Exhibits
After “Farewell to Craster” cocktails on the front deck, dinner was at the Craster Seafood Restaurant, part of Robson’s Kipper Smokehouse. We joined our friends, Dorothy and Geoff, for a lovely meal with lots of good conversation. I had cullen skink soup for a starter. Delicious. And my main was a Portugese fish dish. I can’t remember off hand what everyone else had. And unfortunately the waitress-taken picture of the four of us didn’t come out.
We’ll miss your blog while you’re off the grid. Travel safe.
Safe travels, what will we do, no morning fix of the delightful scenery and food!