It’s 1 hour 39 minutes and 63.9 miles from my front door to Neptune’s fish and chip restaurant. Neptune’s is in Seahouses, a wonderful, trapped in time seaside town on the Northumberland coast. And we go there a lot. Why? Because we love the whole of this undiscovered county; from the ancient village of Warkworth still being watched over by the ruins of its castle, built by the Percy family (If either sound familiar perhaps you read about them when you did Shakespeare at school); to the spectacular splendour of Bamburgh village; to the irresistible draw of fresh cod enveloped in a blanket of heavenly crisp batter, accompanied by a pile of chips and of course mushy peas.
The weather was appalling but that made the slot machines all the more appealing in the amusement arcades. And of course we couldn’t go home without sharing a banana split in Coxon’s ice cream parlour.
There really is no better day out.