Personal Blog
Arrival Date: 2026-10-04
Departure Date: 2026-10-09
Accommodation: AirBnB
We set off from home around 10:30 on the Sunday morning, leaving Mum and Dad to look after the cats, on our trip up to Northumberland. Ripon was a good half-way point on the way up, and on the way back down we’ve planned to go via Carlisle to stop off at Kendal for lunch at Bangkok 7 (the best Thai restaurant we’ve found in the UK yet). But onto Alnwick…
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Another nice breakfast this morning, then off to the Eden Project for when it opened. It’s a long drive after the main road to the car park, then a long walk from even the closest car park to the main entrance, obviously set up to receive thousands of guests per day. We arrived shortly after opening, and were glad we came early as by the time we left it was getting very busy.
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After a long sleep and a lie-in, we went down for breakfast in the hotel for 8am, had to book our time in due to COVID but we could’ve probably slept for another hour. Breakfast was lovely, but our waitress wasn’t very good with complicated orders so I was missing a sausage and Helen was missing a mushroom. Nice and tasty though!
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