Monday 20 October

Woke to a cloudy morning and not as blowy so ventured onto the beach and what a beach

It stretched for miles and miles. This is Druridge Bay..  You could think that you are in oz except for the houses.

                                                                               

Had a good hour walk and watched the sun rise although not very clearly 

                                             

  

Walking back from the beach looking back at the  house you can see we are quite isolated.

                                   

                                                                        

Today we thought we would go to Cragside which is a large estate near here, but the brochure must have been old as it was closed today so we pushed on for the next target through moorland and  Lovely gentle rolling hills

We had lunch and then wandered around Wallington )9house and gardens. It was gifted to the national trust in 1941 by SIr Charles TRevelyan who was a socialist mp and an 'illogical Englishman'. He and his wife were famous for supporting women voting and trying to abolish slums and poverty so it was an interesting house to visit

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I had always wanted to see Hadrians wall. That was a challenge in itself as it is broken up in parts as you can imagine as it is a bit old and was blending into the other stone walls and through Iran covered windows it became a bit confusing till  after perseverance wefound large   parts of it. We didn't go to the section where you can walk quite a way along iit as it was getting too late. It gets dark at about 530 and we were told a storm was coming. Quite impressive piece of engineering of what we saw and what the historical pictures showed.