Our motorhome trip around the UK is almost over. We’ve allowed a couple of days to travel back to Manchester where we will be catching our long flight home. But we aren’t quite finished yet. There are a few places we’d like to see along the way.
Our first stop was at Alnwick Castle, home to the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland and his ancestors for 700 years. This castle was featured in a number of episodes of the TV series, Downton Abbey and is very imposing and ornate (no photos inside sorry). After visiting the castle, we found a great little pub in the town serving Sunday roast (with Yorkshire pudding of course) for 8 quid.
Continuing southwards, we called in at Durham to see the Durham Cathedral which is reputed to be one of the best in England. We arrived just as a service celebrating 500 years since the Reformation was about to begin, so we joined in and enjoyed the first part of the service, before sneaking out prior to the Bishop’s sermon (my dad would have been disgusted). There is some lovely pipe organ music on the video if, like me, you’re into that sort of thing.
Unfortunately, because daylight saving ended in the UK today, we ran out of daylight before finally reaching our caravan park for the night at the seaside town of Whitby.
