Holy Island: Around Lindisfarne Priory

I'm jumping out of the chronological order that we visited places on our holiday here to one of the last days of our trip. We all knew that we wanted to go to Holy Island, so I spent most of the week looking forward to it and I wasn't disappointed.

To get to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne you have to travel across a causeway which twice a day is covered by the North Sea, isolating the island for hours at a time. Luckily for us the times worked out quite well and we were over and back again with no trouble and we even fit in a pub lunch (hurray, I had the most amazing homemade scotch egg - no pics though I'm afraid, I ate it!).

One of the tourist destinations on the island is the Priory. You've probably noticed that I do love ruined abbeys and priorys, so I was particularly excited about this and although we didn't pay to enter the grounds, there was still a lot to see walking around outside of the Priory and around the Island.

I can't wait to share more photos of Lindisfarne, so many people recommended it to us as a place to visit and it really was stunning, almost like a step back in time where it was quieter and communication was harder. 

Location: Lindisfarne, England
Camera: Refurb LC-A
Film: Kodak BW400CN

Coldingham Bay

It's often the little bay's scattered around that remind me how much I love living in the UK. We saw loads of delightful bays on our Whitby Holiday last year and on this holiday, our bay tick box was crossed off by the lovely small Coldingham Bay just south of St Abb's.

Isn't it just darling? And it was so sunny and bright too - none of us wanted to leave. 

Location: Coldingham Bay, Scotland
Camera: Refurb LC-A
Film: Kodak Ektar 100

More St Abb's Head

More photos from the beautiful St Abb's Head but this time taken with my Zenit B - I'm still a little nervous using this camera as I always seem to slightly over expose the photos, but luckily these don't seem too bad overall.  

The camera my Dad's holding is actually my brother in laws, but he looked pretty cool holding it I thought so I snapped a photo :) Also, look how high Harry's tail is, it was like that all week, he loved our adventures!

Location: St Abb's Head, Scotland
Film: Agfa Vista 200
Camera: Zenit B

St Abb's Head

Our first little outing away from Berwick was only a short journey, crossing the border from England into Scotland to St Abb's Head. One of our friends used to be a keen diver, so I'd heard about how beautiful St Abb's Head was and as it is a nature reserve and a National Trust location, I was expecting it to be nice. 

However I was not expecting it to be absolutely gorgeous, I think the glorious sunshine helped, but wow, what a location St Abb's Head is! It's very hilly and rocky, but the views were totally worth the sore legs and feet.

Doesn't it look gorgeous? I love the Ektar film results as well, it really brings out the blue and red tones in the photos.

Camera: Refurb LC-A
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
Location: St Abb's Head, Scotland