There are bus stops right outside the entrance to our campsite. Buses to and from Alnwick are more or less every 2 hours. We decided to go for the bus at 09:30 which would get us in at 10:15, planning…
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Crab in Craster
I thought we may have lucked out with the tides and the view to Dunstanburgh Castle; high tide this morning was 08:15. So, we left fairly early, me armed with camera, tripod and filters to check out the view from…
Posted in 2026 Northumberland
Dunstan Hill Campsite
We arrived at the Camping and Caravanning Club Dunstan Hill campsite at 13:20 after a blissfully trouble free 195-mile journey from Newark-on-Trent. We’ve got a so-called “jumbo grass pitch” with electric hook-up, which was all that was available when we…
Posted in 2026 Northumberland
Interim Stop
Having had to delay our normal September ferry crossing to the continent because of medical appointments, we’ve decided to surround said medical appointment with a couple of trips in the UK. The first of these trips ( I refuse to…
Posted in 2026 Northumberland
Back to San José
This was a day basically for getting back to San José airport and our plane home, a journey of some 140kms. All three of us were on the same Air France flight to Paris leaving shortly after 19:00. From there…
Posted in 2026 Costa Rica
Last Supper
This was our last full day in Costa Rica. Tomorrow we’ll be heading for San José airport. We’d done the various cloud forest sites that Mr. Leader had planned, so today he thought we’d head down out of Monteverde further…
Posted in 2026 Costa Rica
A Bad Start
We’re staying in a 3-bedroom house above Monteverde. I know I’m getting repetitive but I just have to show you our shower; the wiring to the shower head is particularly inventive, I thought. Can you imagine wiring like that in…
Posted in 2026 Costa Rica
Curi-Cancha Reserve
We are at 1500m in the town of Monteverde; actually we are a very slow couple of kilometres outside the town up one of the many steep gravel/stone/rock roads. I had unwound from the slightly traumatic inbound journey using both…
Posted in 2026 Costa Rica
Off to Monteverde
We left Liberia for Monteverde today. We were intending to spend the morning at another reserve southeast of Liberia before getting on the road proper to Monteverde, so we left our collection of bags in one of the motel rooms…
Posted in 2026 Costa Rica
Another Volcano
Having crossed to the Pacific side of the central backbone mountain range of Costa Rica, today we headed back up to the mountain range to visit another volcano: El Rincón de la Vieja. Mr. Leader had been disappointed at his…
Posted in 2026 Costa Rica
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