A visit to Alnwick Gardens

Our planned trip today was to Alnwick Gardens just 20 minutes down the coast. The weather was again magnificent and quite warm at times in the sheltered parts of the garden. This archway will be green in another week or so.

This is the Cherry Blossom orchard and it is just beginning to bloom. It will be beautiful in another week or so.

Gaye with Fiona and Fraser and loving every minute of being in their company.

Among the Daffodils

Another archway

Looking down from the top of the fountains

Grandson Elliot enjoying all the ponds and streams

These blue flowers looked great but the photograph does not do them justice.

The fountain display comes on at regular intervals but I missed it and didn’t bother to wait another half hour or longer for it to come on again. A lovely afternoon and everybody enjoyed themselves. Apologies as the photos are not larger but our Wi-Fi is not great and photos are slow in transferring to my Laptop so this blog is loaded from my phone.

Islands & Castles

We arrived on Holy Isle on Sunday evening as soon as the causeway was open and checked into our B & B and headed to The Ship Inn for a nice meal. The weather was superb and Carlo & Sidne just loved the rural charm of the island.

The tide not fully out yet. We never saw the island when the tide was high as we were either away somewhere or it was in the middle of the night.

St.Mary's Church 

Enjoying a seat in the community garden

Gaye looking very relaxed and enjoying herself. 

 Our visit on Monday gave the girls a chance to sit on the throne. Sidne looks more like a Queen than Gaye as she has a regal look about her. 

The superb view of the Northumberland Coast from the ramparts of Bamburgh Castle

From Bamburgh we headed to Alnwick Castle Gardens where the main feature is the splendid fountains 

Back on Holy Isle on Monday evening I went for a walk to St.Cuthberts Island where this photos taken showing the village on Holy Isle

St. Cuthberts Cross on his small island