<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/alnmouthapr15.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2555" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/alnmouthapr15-225x300.jpg" alt="alnmouth(apr15)" width="225" height="300" /></a>Our annual holiday with the usual suspects, less the Bulgarian contingent, was in Alnmouth. This is an area we visited <a href="http://www.pigyard.com/northumbria_05.htm" target="_blank">ten years ago</a> and we loved it so much we felt it was time to revisit.

Our friend Sue found a wonderful house just up from the estuary mouth and within walking distance of several pubs and restaurants.

We at <a href="http://sun-inn-alnmouth.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Sun Inn</a> which served high quality pub food and later in the week we tried to eat at the <a href="http://www.redlionalnmouth.com/" target="_blank">Red Lion</a> but having been told we couldn't book but just turn up and there would be a table for the eight of us it turns out they misled us and we were turned away - nil points <img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2556" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/bamburgh-castleapr15-300x225.jpg" alt="bamburgh-castle(apr15)" width="300" height="225" />there but we went over the road to the <a href="http://www.hopeandanchorhotel.co.uk/index.html" target="_blank">Hope and Anchor</a> where we had an excellent meal with mainly Italian food with a good choice of other dishes.

After much debate about whether we'd walked around <a href="http://www.bamburghcastle.com/index.php" target="_blank">Bamburgh castle</a> ten years ago and having undertaken a six mile stroll along the beach it was agreed we hadn't been here before. It's a imposing castle and the tea room in the village made a great pot of Earl Grey and teacake - the stuff holidays are made of.

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