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| Jane, Cheryl, me and Malcolm |
Diverting from my anti-clockwise coastal route around the UK, I have just spent 10 days in Dorset with my sister Jane who had a hip replacement at
Circle Bath Hospital. She kept referring to it as “a really lovely
hotel... I mean hospital”, and I am not surprised, as it was
beautifully run, and sumptuous. More importantly the operation went well and she came home after only two days. Her confinement
happened at the beginning of Dorset Art Weeks when studios and
galleries all over Dorset are 'open house' for two weeks. Jane
exhibited with two friends, Cheryl and Mary, and they managed the
studio while she managed the stairs and the walking sticks and a few
half-shifts in the studio. She's doing brilliantly. I was nurse/driver/housekeeper.
Baa rested at Callerton Parking, close
to Newcastle airport and I returned there with Nick yesterday. We set off for the coast again along the north side of
the Tyne. Tynemouth is a lovely place right at the mouth of the
river. We parked in Front Street which is full of chic shops and bars –
even a chocolatier – and visited the castle and priory which dates
back to the 11th century. The imposing figure of Admiral
Lord Collingwood looks out across the river mouth – he was a
Newcastle man and a very important admiral under Nelson, being first
on the scene at Trafalgar. Beneath his monument Nelson is quoted:
“See how that noble fellow Collingwood takes his ship into action.”
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| Admiral Lord Collingwood |
We moved on through Whitley Bay and
Blyth to Newbiggin by the Sea where we bought provisions and had a
curry on our way to the Sandy Bay campsite near Ashington.
The sound of the waves on the beach below the campsite as we went to bed were just a taste of the amazing Northumberland coastline that lay in wait.
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