Question: What do the good folk of Berwick, Newcastle, Morpeth and Newcastle do on the morning after watching a BBC 2 Programme on Britain’s North East Coast?
Answer Go to Lindesfarne.
Question What if it is a miserable cold and wet day. Answer More go
And so it proved. (I took some English relis) Not a good idea despite slavishly following the advice given by the Hutton Think Tank’s publication:’ Two hours on Lindesfarne on a wet day in August':
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Ignore out of town car park. Go to town centre. Fail to find parking place which does not have a triple yellow line. After 35 minutes return to car park. Park. Pay minimum fee of £2.Walk into town. Go for soothing cup of coffee and caramel shortbread in Lindesfarne’s only Café. Only instant coffee available after queuing for 20 minutes. Last Caramel Shortbread purchased by fat woman one ahead in queue. Go to Priory. Estimate length of wait 30 minutes. Buy guide book on Priory in that little shop that sells nothing except guidebooks and ice cream and whose last ice cream has just been purchased by the fat lady, aforementioned. Return to car park. Read guide book. Return to Hutton.
