Northumberland

Once a year I go on a photographic trip with a friend Colin. http://www.colindixonphotography.com/ This year’s took place last month. Colin is a professional photographer specialising in architecture and lives in Hexham. He will not thank me for saying this, but he will be 60 later this month, and he has decided to reduce his commercial work and spend more time on his personal work.

Our intention was to travel up the west coast of Scotland, but the weather forecast for Scotland didn’t look promising, so Colin thought it would be a good opportunity to introduce me and to reacquaint himself with, parts of his home county Northumberland. We ended up staying the week in the north of the county close to Bamburgh Castle and not far from Holy Island.

Holy Island

Colin knows his home county well, and over the course of the week we visited some interesting places and even crossed over the border to Scotland for a brief visit. We both had a productive holiday and I even managed to take a few photographs with his digital camera.

Yet another Castle

Northumberland is a well kept secret and not yet a tourist hotspot, even though it has Hadrian’s Wall, and more castles than any other county in England. I will be returning with a camera and an ample supply of film sometime in 2007.