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The
wonderful Coast
Ten miles east of
Newcastle's throbbing city centre is the mouth of the Tyne and the
Northumbria coastline. Whitley Bay has enough barn bars to
fulfill your every stag weekend requirement; Tynemouth is like
Islington transplanted up here via Bath; Cullercoats sits between them
with actual coves and bays and a Victorian lifeboat house.
You can take tea - excellent hot beef sandwiches or perfectly presented salad - at the Grand hotel, or you can visit the ruined Abbey, or wander along the enormous beaches, or sit and watch the many lighthouses. It's very relaxing, plus my friends live there.
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| Cullercoats Bay, the lifeboat house just
visible. The sea is just huge here. None of this
France-just-over-the-water rubbish - from Newcastle your local ferry
goes to Sweden. |
The church at Cullercoats. The Grand is just
behind me, will take a pic next time I'm there as it's rather
splendid. Note continuing huge sky and sea. The first time
I saw this was ten years ago whilst on a weekend visit some time in the
early spring: sleet pinging off my specs and the wind freezing my ears
to my head. Why does she live here? I thought. But now I
know. |
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| On the beach just below the Grand. They used
to have one of those sea water swimming pools along here, but nowit's
just a kind of rock-garden-pool, which is a shame. |
Like I said, we have big sky up
here. Further up the coast at Amble, in September |
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| Further still up the coast at
Dunstanburgh Castle. Next stop northwards is Lindisfarne. |
OK, it's not quite Blackpool, but I
like it. More pix coming soon. This oic - of
Blackpool - was taken in November
when I demanded to be taken to see the sea on the West coast, having
never seen it. And it's about as big as the sea on the East coast -
more giant sky and even more hen and stag night bars. The town
has a nice Victorian pleasure palace though. |
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This page was last updated on 12/02/05