The view from Dunstanburgh Castle looking towards Craster
The Castle is built on a lump of basalt sticking out into the North Sea and is the most romantic setting of any Castle possible, it is a little walk across the edge of a golf course.
Fittingly for Valentine's Day, a romantic setting for
Fulmars courting on those cliffs under the castle.
Castles are a big part of the the coast there - most famous is of course
Bamburgh
This site was once the capital of the Saxon kingdon of Northumbria and has been fortified ever since - now the castle is divided into apartments, but the village is still the focus for many holiday makers.
Edinburgh was only a hour and a half away!
We vistited Holyrood Palace and walked the royal mile to the castle - pausing at St Giles Presbyterian cathedral on the way.
This was my favourite church though - the earliest building in the Castle - St Margarets Church
Back at Seahouses - the archetypical duck of the harbour - a spectacular drake Eider!
A snow scape
The view from the flat on our last day there - yes it is that snow stuff again - this time on the seaweed!
A stop off on the journey was this Mithraic temple at Broccolita on the Roman wall. What remains in the temple are casts of the original altars and posts
But they still attract sacrifices - now of a few pence - no wine or blood now
