Kens Birthday Walk and the Strange Story of Elizabeth's Boots

Today was Ken's Birthday Walk so he selected a starting point near the village of Holburn in Northumberland not far from Berwick-upon-Tweed. The walk was a 7 mile circular taking in St. Cuthbert's Cave and following parts of the St. Cuthbert's Way and showing some wonderful views of Northumberland and Holy Isle on the coast. Sandria's sister Sheila joined us today as a guest Last of the Summer Wine walker. She is visiting Edinburgh for the Festival and was delighted to join this select group. 

St. Cuthberts cave is very near the start of the walk. Photographs taken near and in the cave were very dark so this is the best view I managed.

The views from the cave are spectacular. These fields of Barley have all been harvested but there are many fields in the area still waiting for the combine harvester.  

There are several of these outcrops on the walk and this one we walked round the back of.  

These feet belong to Elizabeth and you will see that the left foot (size 10) is larger than the right (size 7) which was Peter's fault as he put their boots in the car and managed to bring his own and one of hers along with another of his old boots. She managed to walk the 7 miles without too much difficulty but husband Peter is in big trouble for this mistake and revenge will be taken in some form or another in due course.

The Holy Island of Lindisfarne in the distance with the tide out.

The highest point of the walk looking north towards Scotland

We are looking west towards the Scottish Borders and the Heather is looking beautiful.

The Trig point on the highest point of the walk but still below 1000ft. 

This is a field of Poppies for use in the Pharmaceutical industry according to our two retired Pharmacists John and Ken.

Our guest walker Sheila with her future brother in law John and a beautiful bunch of Heather.
We finished the day with a nice meal in an Italian Restaurant in Wooler.