Good morning from a grey overcast Dover, Kent, England, UK 🇬🇧 😀 😉
Geez, I do wish this weather pattern would move on over now and we can finally get going with summer. It’s still very chilly with a sharp wind blowing, and feels more like autumn than spring/summer!
Last night, after my client had gone to bed, I watched a TV programme – for the first time in months!! ‘The World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys’ on Channel 5. Its narrated by Bill Nighy who has such a beautiful voice.
I was so excited to see the route; the train left from Yorkshire and travelled through Durham and into Northumberland!!! It called in at some of the places where I stopped on my jaunt along the Northumberland Coast Path in 2021, albeit going from south to north, via Newcastle, Berwick-upon-Tweed and into Scotland and ending in Edinburgh.
It stopped in Craster and near Lindisfarne, and into Berwick-upon-Tweed.
I love the little snippets of history that they talk about and learned something last night….the expression ‘on tenterhooks’ comes from the fish industry and making kippers. The fish, crasters, are filleted and hung up on hooks before being hung up in a shed for smoking, and producing smoked kippers. Pretty neat eh! Never too old to learn something new 😉
It was thrilling to see all the places I had visited during my walk. Happy memories
Have a great day folks…
I agree – it’s always nice to see places you’ve visited (whether on TV or on other people’s blogs). I think this show (or something similar) used to be on our “Travel Channel” way back … but we don’t have a TV anymore so I don’t know if it still shows. I don’t miss a TV, but the travel shows were always fun to watch!
I love travel shows!! I usually get stupidly excited when I see places I’ve been on films too.
I’m working atm so it’s my client’s TV..like you I don’t have one. Not missed, but I enjoy watching from time to time
nice..i love watching history stuff, especially learning those little tid bits:). have been doing quite a bit of walking this year- 6 or more miles sometimes. i think about you walking so much. I think i will stick with it:)
Oh brilliant. I love walking as you know, but unfortunately I’m currently not doing as much. My left knee is deteriorated so much that it’s making any distance really painful…I’m not even sure I’ll be able to walk as planned in September 😔