Eyemouth to Tynemouth

Sounds good doesn’t it ?
Rolls off the tongue.

Eyemouth to Tynemouth
Old Gits Bike Ride 2011

It’ll actually be a bit further north than Eyemouth which is only a freewheel from Berwick so I’m proposing that we start from the village of Thorntonloch which stands in the shadow of Torness Nuclear Power Station right on the coastline.

The Sustrans route runs through Thorntonloch and sticks to the coastline for a while before swinging inland and taking a route through forest and moor to the border with England and our first night stopover in Berwick, a shade over 20 miles for the Friday afternoon session, a nice warm-up for Saturday.

A twin room at the Travel Lodge in Berwick is £45-ish but the only entertainment for the evening is the Morrisons next door to it so we’re fine for brekkie the next morning but it will be a very short drive into the town centre for the evening entertainment.

Saturday is the jewel in the crown, a forty-something miles saunter down the Northumberland coastline following the castle and coast Sustrans route taking in Banburgh Castle, Seahouses, Dunstanburgh Castle, Craster (kippers Andy, kippers), Warkworth Castle, Druridge Bay, and ending at the Premier Inn in Ashington which has the usual Brewers Fayre etc on site which is a good job because Ashington is generally quite shit.

The rest of that route though should be gorgeous even in the rain, you do know it will rain when we do it don’t you, most of that 40-odd mile of coastline is National Trust land and has lots of good beach awards, bring a bucket and spade and some of those paper sand castle flags.

Sunday leaves us with 20 miles down the coast to Tynemouth which this year should leave us with plenty of time to have a beer rather than rushing back like last year.

So £50 on accomodation so far, we could do it for £100 but shall we suggest £120 this year and leave £300 to £400 in the pot for Wheatfields ?