Where am I right now?

[Grandadwasthatyou]

That's it really.

Whitby?

No.

Camber sands?

No

Bournemouth?

Cornwall

I can tell you it’s not the Isle of Wight.

Tynemouth!

Tynemouth

@AwkwardSquad and @igglu
That didn't take long!
Just listening to the waves and children playing happily although beach is just starting to empty now.

I love Tynemouth. Have you had a good day? Did you go to Riley’s?

No fish and chips from the take away part of The View. Coffee was awful though!

Not been there, looks really nice though. Worth a visit (if we avoid the coffee!)?

@awkwardsquad I have often had lunch there with friends. Not particularly cheap but worth it for the gorgeous view.
I hadn't realised until today that they even had a section underneath which sold fish and chips, coffees etc.
My dh kindly offered to go and get me a coffee but when he got back to me it was black. Not being a coffee drinker he had assumed it would have milk in it and no mention was made by the staff whether he wanted milk or not.
Anyway I then had to trail back along the beach, queue up again to ask for the milk and by the time I got back to my beach spot it was cold.

Despite that dc had a lovely time digging holes in the sand and dh took them rock pooling whilst I had a little nap. Bliss!

We were at Tynemouth too today! Dd1 was doing the surf school, it was lovely!

I recognised tynemouth straight off, too. Can't miss the priory.

Love walking along the pier. By the time you get to the end, everything is really small, back where you walked from.

Dh and I were just saying how lucky we are to live in the North East. Gorgeous beaches, woodlands, shopping centres, lower house prices and for many a relatively short commute.

I knew where it was immediately. Many happy childhood memories for me! We usually went to King Edward's Bay.

Is the lighthouse St Mary's lighthouse? I've never been there but seen pictures as was supposed to go diving in the area but on the planned day the weather, tides or visibility was wrong and it got cancelled and not managed to arrange it again.

I tried to go to the seaside today (Scarborough) but because the bastard kittens that cannot use the catflap to come in even though they are perfectly capable of using it to go outside would not come in and it took me over an hour of bribing with Dreamies to come inside so I could go out and by that time the traffic had got too bad to get there so I didn't get there and I went for a walk and had a pub lunch instead.

So tomorrow am going to get up earlier and try and get out of the house without aforementioned bastard kittens escaping so I can get to the seaside before everyone else makes a massive traffic jam on the A64.

Of course I could just leave them outside and they might manage to work out the cat flap when I'm not there to do it for them, but then I'd worry about them if I was out all day, even though they'll probably be fine, but I'm too soft for that.

Ssh OP! Remember we have to keep up with the myth that 'it is grim up north' because if they cotton on to how nice it really is, all those people who couldn't possibly move away from the south east might make the move and we'd lose some of the advantages of being here.

I particularly like Saltburn by the sea and it's actually the quickest place to get to from Leeds, because the roads are quieter than the horror that is the A64 round York on a nice day. but I've been there a few times and have a hankering to go to Scarborough for the first time in many years.

8arbara That isn't St. Mary's Lighthouse that you can see, that's the light at the end of the breakwater that marks the mouth of the Tyne. Years ago you could walk right along it, it was like being out at sea! But the last time I was in the area it was closed to visitors.

St. Mary's Lighthouse is in the opposite direction, at the far end of Whitley Bay. It's on a small island just off shore, you can walk across to it at low tide.

OK thanks. I love a breakwater you can walk on. Looks like a very quiet beach for such a nice day, but I assume that most people had gone home for the day by then.

I normally see the priory from the other side (South Shields).

It really is special isn’t it?

Aaaaargh, you're making me homesick!

Live in the Southwest now but grew up in Northumberland and took day trips to Whitley Bay etc. Dh was born in Tynemouth and lived in Whitley Bay. Everything is better up there, everything.

@FishyMcFishyfingersFace ..nothing quite compares to the sparkling sea and little coves and beaches in Devon and Cornwall though.