Northumberland, Edinburgh and Fife as we creep towards the Highlands
I’m writing this from the Fife coast near St Andrews on day 9. We are now settled into the day to day rhythm of van life and what a de-stress it is! My aim is to cover 4 days at a time on this blog so here goes with days 5 to 8… Day 5 saw us leave the lovely village of Rothbury in the Northumberland hills and pay a visit to the historic town of Alnwick en-route to the coast. After a wander around town we hit the coast at Craster and walked the coast north to Dunstanburgh Castle . We particularly liked the coastline north of the castle with the wide sandy sweep of Embleton Bay and the weird curved rock strata on the beach. We made a late afternoon stop at Seahouses harbour on the way north so I could see the strange resident Eider x Mallard hybrid alongside a few tame Eider. That night we had our first campsite stay of the trip at Spindlestone Hideaway near Bamburgh where we treated ourselves to some local hawthorn honey and I was entertained by the local Tree Sparrows just yards f...