Saturday
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| On the beach |
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| Paddling time |
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| Brian's Photos |
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Rocky in places
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Three bridges across the Tweed
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| Brian's photo |
We reached Berwick about 5.00 pm and collected our luggage from the coach before making our way to the youth hostel and various B&Bs around the town. I stayed in the
YHA as usual and it was very comfortable and had a well equipped kitchen for the self caterers. A lovely fish supper with a few friends finished the evening off well.
The Walls
Now some of you may not have had time to walk the walls but because I am an early riser and I make my own breakfast I have some spare time in the morning before we depart for our walk and this holiday I managed to walk the complete circuit of the walls and also the pier to the lighthouse and the river walk as far as the railway bridge. Here's a few photos of what I saw.
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| The main Guard |
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A seat with a view over the walls.
The seats along the walls are supported on cast iron snakes. |
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| View of the pier and lighthouse |
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| Along the pier |
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| View of Berwick from the lighthouse |
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| Path marked with solar lights |
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| Lions House |
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| Very tidy allotments |
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| The Barracks |
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| The moat |
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| A well hidden car boot sale |
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| They were good at hiding guns too! |
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| Oh look, there's our coach arriving. |
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| Mute swans on the River Tweed |
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| The Royal Border Railway Bridge with 28 arches |
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| Plenty of trains stop here |
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| Lady Jerningham statue. |
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| Castle Gate |
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| The Town Hall |
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| Room for three in the stocks! |
Sunday
We awoke to a lovely sunny morning and after my morning stroll along the walls I boarded the coach at 9.30 am to travel into Scotland for today's choice of walks, all of them coastal. After some deliberation I chose the 'A' walk led by Ian, from Cockburnspath to Coldingham mostly on the Berwickshire Coastal Path. This was an interesting walk and we learned about
James Hutton, the founder of modern geology and had time to look at
Coldingham Priory.
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| Torness nuclear power station |
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| The Cove |
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| Pease Bay |
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| Coldingham Priory |
Ray's group also walked along the coast in the opposite direction taking in
Fast Castle en route.These are Maureen's photos from that walk.
And these are Brian's photos from the same walk.
The 'B' party started at Cockburnspath and walked to Dunbar and the 'C' party walked from St Abbs to Eyemouth. Everyone had a great day in the sunshine.
Monday
Our last day so bags had to be packed and on the coach by 9.30 am before setting off to do inland walks today in Northumberland. I chose the 'B' walk along part of St Cuthbert's Way finishing in Wooler. Some parts of the walk were very good with a visit to St Cuthbert's Cave and then the Cheviot hills rising up in front of us but there was rather too much road walking so Stuart added his own variation towards the end and impressed everyone with his map reading by finding hidden tracks taking us through fields, a caravan site and woods instead of walking down the road into Wooler.
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| St Cuthbert's Cave |
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| A well-earned rest |
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| Cheers! |
We had plenty of time in Wooler for refreshments before setting off for home and arriving in Bradford in good time for buses home.
Thanks again for all the people involved in organising the weekend and the walks leaders who all did a splendid job. This extra weekend has become a firm fixture in our walking calendar and Berwick-upon-Tweed was a great place to visit especially in the sunshine!
