Northumberland tips please

[mosschops30]

We are staying in one of the Coastal Retreats cottages in 2 weeks time (praying the warm weather is back by then).
We are near Bamburgh.

Recommendations for walks, beaches, days out, places to eat please

Seahouses for fish & chips (the lifeboat practice is at about 6pm on Tuesdays and it's fab watching the boat go down the street and being launched). Also crap but fun crazy golf there.

Beach walks - Seahouses, Beadnell, Bamburgh.

Short walk to Dunstanburgh Castle from Craster. Buy kippers at Craster or Seahouses.

Boat trip to Farne Islands.

Lindisfarne/Holy Island.

The Ship Inn at Low Newton by Sea, we usually park in Craster and walk there, past the castle.

There's a lovely butchers in Bamburgh - try the Bamburgh bangers.

Nice bakers in Seahouses.

If you go to Tourist Information at Craster or Seahouses you should be able to buy a weekly parking permit ? from memory these are around £20 but you can park in any council car park in the Berwick/Alnwick area.

Make sure you have cash ? there aren?t too many cash machines around! We've been there when the cash machine ran out and the Co-op stopped giving cash back...

I LOVE Coastal Retreats!

Great thanks

is Alnwick gardens and castle worth a look?

Where to start. OH is from Northumberland and we visit a lot.

First of all Alnwick Gardens are worth a visit. Get on a tour of the poison garden if you can, it is fascinating. The castle has disappointingly few rooms open to the public and is IMO poor value for money.

As well as Hanleyhigh's suggestions:
Alnmouth is lovely and has a fantastic beach
Cragside is the jewel in Northumberland's crown IMO
Wallington
Warkworth castle
Chillingham castle - England's most haunted castle
Woodhorn Colliery museum
Hadrian's Wall - Housesteads and Vindolanda
Hatherslaw light railway
Belsay castle and gardens

Thank you for those. I am also from Northumberland (could almost see Cragside from my house) but never did any of the touristy stuff and havent bern to Alnwick or the coast for 17 years

definately will do chillingham then,
I want to do holy island
Dd wants to do Cragside
Walk to Dunstanburgh
Alnmouth beach
Alnwick gardens

Weve got 5 days so i hope we get it all done

If you make it as far as Wallington it has a fantastic farm shop.

We enjoyed Alnwick Gardens.

We loved Alnwick Gardens and I second the tour of the poison garden. If it is warm take either swimming costumes and a towel or spare clothes and a towel as there are fountains for the dcs to play in.

Alnwick Castle had a lot of fun activities in a large courtyard when we went there eg brass rubbing, learning to do the fancy ye olde lettering, dressing up as knights and princesses, puppets to make your own show with and so on.

It also had a scary walk through bit which mine were too scared to go through so I can't comment on it.

Round the castle they had little owls hidden in each room for the dcs to hunt for which livened it up for them but ours were more interested in the grounds and canons etc than inside.

We took a boat trip out to the lighthouse and to see the puffins from Seahouses.

We also had a fun day at the beach at Seahouses.

Cragside had a lovely playpark if you went through the grounds. It also had a maze in the grounds made out of rhodedendrons or similar. There were hundreds of tiny little frogs everywhere when we went.

We went in July though so they may have been seasonal.

I hope you have a great time. We loved it there.

Sorry havnt read all replies , so maybe duplicating.

wonderful playpark in Embleton with a pub across the road!

walk to Dunstanburgh castle from the opposite end to Craster ( craster is a bit of a tourist trap) wonderful grassy walk above the beach.

recommend the Indian restaurant takaway near the small roundabout in seahouses.

organise a supermarket delivery as food shoppping is limited, in terms of fruit/ veg / fresh bread especially.

Bamburgh has a nice playpark next to the beach, and a lovely deli, ( sausage rolls fabulous)

can you tell I like my food.

visit the only west facing harbour on the east coast at Beadnell, nice beach too.

Have a lovely time

If you get time when you go to Craster go south a bit to Howick Scar. You can do down on amazing rocks and a lovely beach. There is a Victorian swimming pool cut into the rock that is great for crabbing.