We had a glorious sunset last night, but this morning it was really cloudy and didn’t look too promising but you never know. We decided to go to a Camping Outlet store on the road to Berwick to get some chocks and then go on to Berwick. The outlet place, when we found it, was really good - bought lots of things - chocks, catches, a small rucksack (to keep in the camper) and shoes for Les and some socks. It must have been a lot of stuff as it came to £86!!
We stopped in the cafe for a coffee, then up the road, literally, into Berwick. It turned out to be a really nice market town with a huge river running next to it and a very big viaduct on which the railway runs. The weather had considerably brightened up by now and we went for a walk around the ramparts and then found the parish church that we had read about in one of our leaflets - one of only two built when Cromwell was in charge.
We then went back to Seahouses where the lifeboat was supposed to be launched for a practice run at 6pm but just before getting there the mist rolled in from the sea and we thought that it might not happen. We went to the cake shop first, then down to the quay. Still not sure but quite a few people were arriving with cameras then someone said the lifeboat would launch in two minutes. This was supposed to be for the BBC One Show - there was a man with a camera, one sound man and Dan Snow. The Grace Darling launched on time and came round into the harbour where ‘the guys’ got on board and they all disappeared off into the mist.
Back to the campsite where we used our new chocks before it began to rain.
Tags: berwick, campsite, grace darling, lifeboat, Northumberland, seahouses, weather
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