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| On the beach at Tynemouth |   At the pier |     In the town of Tynemouth | In the library. I have yet to see a library anywhere near as well-equipped as the ones in Bellevue |   The moat at the Tynemouth castle | We were lucky - we visited during a historical re-enactment weekend. The kids got to fight with sword and shield, and also meet many of the re-enactors |       A blacksmith |   The re-enactors slept in camps like this. |   A reenactment of a Viking raid |   First aid workers were at hand to deal with injuries |   Ruins of the abbey |   View from the gatehouse | View towards Tynemouth |   Hadrian's Wall - the old Roman fort at Vindolanda. This shows the underfloor heating |   Remnants of the gutter system | A reproduction of one of the turrets that existed along the wall |   Shards, waiting to be sifted through | Very scenic territority |   Walking the Hadrian's Wall trail around Steel Rig/Sycamore Gap |   Pretty windy! |         This is the Sycamore tree, from Sycamore Gap |     Peter wanted me to take a picture of him eating desert at the indian buffet in Newcastle. He's eating ice cream soup with M&M candies... | At Lindisfarne - Holy Island, north of Newcastle. It's connected to the mainland by a causeway that's flooded at high tide. That's why we're driving right next to seaweed! |   The castle at Lindisfarne. It looks deserted, but... |   ...there were plenty of tourists like us on the island! | These birds found the buds of this plant very delicious |   I liked the way that rooms were done up in National Trust buildings - just as though people were still living in them, with lots of knick-knacks. | By lining up these 2 pyramids, fishing boats could head directly into the harbor |   The castle kitchen (remodeled in the early 1900's) | These boats made into shelters were typical of the island |   The Lime Kilns | Lots of visitors built cairns |   (We didn't build this) |   Another castle, visible south of Lindisfarne |   In the castle gardens |   As the tide gets lower, all the boats are on their sides |   Some pilgrim's paths ended at the abbey - St Oswald's Way and St Cuthbert's Way | These poles mark the pedestrian pathway to Lindisfarne |   Alnwick Castle, where scenes from Harry Potter were filmed | Along the waterfront in Newcastle |   I think I must have been promising the kids extra screen time for good photos, because of all the smiles! |  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||