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Coast & Castles Day 2 - Amble to Berwick-Upon-Tweed

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With the alarm going off at 7.30, I was awoken to the sound of an 80 year old miner with emphysema and a heavy cold trying to evacuate his lungs, sorry, I mean a very poorly Frankie…He hadn’t had a good night and was feeling much worse than yesterday. Knowing today was the tougher of the 2 days (10 miles further and 3 times the climbing…) things weren’t looking good. Before we went down for breakfast, we had a look at the options. 1. Ride to Bamburgh (30ish miles) get the train to Berwick from Chathill. Only there are no trains from Chathill on a Sunday. 2. Ride to Alnmouth (8 miles) get the train to Berwick. No trains this Sunday, rail replacement bus service, bikes not allowed. 3. Get a bus from anywhere to Berwick. No bikes allowed on any bus service. 4. Frankie had to grit his teeth, use his stoic superpower and just try and get on with it, with the possibility of a taxi from Seahouses to Berwick when and if we get there. Option 4 it was then! To further darken the mood, the coffee
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Coast & Castles Day 1 - Newcastle-Upon-Tyne to Amble

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  For the 3rd time this year (sorry Andrea!) the blog is back! With Dec off to Norway with his inspirational Parkinson’s mates, Conleth busy doing good things and his podcast (check out man hug podcast, it’s ace…) and Kieran already putting me through it on the South Downs Way a couple of months ago ( I still have PTSD about it…) it was left to me and Frankie to put the lid on the cycling season and to see off his remaining original hip before his operation to become fully bionic sometime before Christmas. A quick discussion before I told him we’ll be cycling in Northumberland, and the route from Newcastle to Berwick Upon Tweed was agreed at a manageable 50 miles or so a day, and a date put in the diary for this weekend! Having spent last weekend with Frankie at Liverpool seeing our mate Paul get a well deserved alumni award, I knew he was crook, not only with his hip but big style man flu and so it was touch and go as to whether he’d be well enough to even start the trip, but as you k
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