Into Scotland - 14th-15th September
It rained in the night and in the morning it was overcast. The tops of the chimneys at Lynemouth power station were hidden in the low cloud as I made a big loop around them and then found a path beside the beach. I cycled around the huge sweep of Druridge Bay and then on through Amble to Almouth, a tiny port with its village on the hillside above a bay and estuary. When I reached Boulmer there was a choice of routes and I took to the beach path, which was a bit rough in places but very beautiful. Sea mist rolling in Almouth Bay River Aln Cycle Route 1 I could the the banks of sea mist rolling in now and it became obvious that the castles at Craster and Bamburgh were going to be invisible, so I decided to take a slightly more direct route towards Seahouses. I know this bit of the coast fairly well and I'd cycled it before, so I didn't feel the need to go into Seahouses either, though in clear weather Craster and Bamburgh and Seahouses are all well w...