Monday, July 19, 2010

request for advice..

Feel a bit strange doing this but am hoping that the blogosphere will deliver. I want to go and visit Lindisfarne and Cragside and so need to find a clean, reasonable, b+b up in Northumberland for two nights early August. I have spent hours on the internet and am no further forward....any recommendations? Thank you if you even just take the time to think about it....ps sleeps 2 non smoking car driving...thanks again.

3 comments:

Steve said...

Hmm. I'd try looking online for the nearest Tourist information centre for that area and then doing it the old fashioned way - giving them a ring and speaking to somebody human. Good luck!

A Woman Of No Importance said...

Libby, hope I'm not too late...

http://www.leefarm.co.uk/Rothbury_Bed_and_Breakfast.html

The Lee Farm, my neighbour virtually, we're only two miles from Cragside by car and Holy Island is about thirty-ish miles away, a nice run out...

The Lee is a large, smart, traditional in appearance, Georgian farm-house on a working farm.

(p.s. I get no paybacks from the Aynsleys, who I don't know personally!) I just know that the price is good...

Or, you could try Rothbury itself, where there are many B&Bs, including at Wagtail Farm http://www.wagtailfarm.info/accommodation.html or Burnfoot House http://www.burnfoothouse.co.uk/, or Tosson Tower Farm http://www.tossontowerfarm.com/

Elsdon is nice and peaceful or there's a load here, all of which I've driven past and they're in lovely areas http://www.visit-rothbury.co.uk/accom/a_bed_breakfast.htm or there's the bunch I've attached here, which all look very pleasant http://www.bedandbreakfasts.co.uk/propertysearch.asp?query=NE65+8JA&paramlink=Pauperhaugh+Alnwick+Northumberland+NE65

Hope that's helpful, Libby, and that you have a lovely time here in Northumberland - Much love, Fhi x

libby said...

Thank you Steve...humans are mostly helpful I've found!
Fhi..thank you so much for taking the trouble to answer/type! They all look lovely so will be trying to book one sometime this week (when someone else in the house gives me the dates I need!!)

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