We would like to use cookies to ensure we give you the best experience on our website. If you consent to us using cookies, please click on the tick.
Part 1
I have been coming to Lindisfarne more or less every year since 1992. It is a very special place for both me and Maggie who first discovered the island in 1975 and has been a regular visitor ever since. I am grateful to her that she introduced me to it - and to Northumberland which I also love. I now know Holy Island well and every time I’m up here cross the sands of the Pilgrims’ Way as well as treading the many island paths up in the dunes and along the northern seashore which I particularly love - come rain, shine or wind. The wind is more or less a meteorological constant - whether it blows in from the chilly North Sea and Siberian continental east or breezily finds land fall from the west - still bearing Gulf Stream gathered moisture from the Atlantic. It’s rare for this island to bask in a sense of becalmed luminosity and sustained atmospheric stillness.
08 March 2024
24 December 2023
28 August 2023
31 December 2022
24 December 2022
05 May 2021
05 May 2021
05 May 2021