We've hit a few delays trying to schedule our honeymoon to Italy. It was first planned for the spring of 2019, just a few months after our wedding so that we had some breathing space to plan it after all that craze. However, when we learned about the two weddings planned in the summer, we decided to pause that honeymoon budget (and PTO time) so that we could come back to St Louis again instead. So, we decided it would be nice to do a first anniversary honeymoon instead, and seeing as how first anniversary gifts are "paper" we thought that giving each other the honeymoon plane tickets would be perfect. However, once again fate was not on our side! Following the flights home from the weddings we were due to renew our British visas. We weren't allowed to leave the UK while that application process was pending, but since it was late June at the time we assumed it would be completed well ahead of September 21 for us to plan the honeymoon on our anniversary. We were wrong! As the weeks passed, it became clear that we wouldn't be taking the honeymoon we'd dreamed of in 2019. After that initial disappointment, and acceptance that we were stuck in the UK, we rescheduled Italy for May 2020 (stay tuned for that blog post!) and instead spent a romantic anniversary weekend in Bamburgh.
So, we took a morning bus from Newcastle out to the historic costal town of Bamburgh, where we were met with unexpected sunshine and the fresh smell of saltwater. First stop was brunch at The Copper Kettle Tearoom, a quiet little cafe in the middle of town. Then we went to tour the historic Bamburgh castle which overlooked the town. And unsurprisingly for a costal castle of that age, it had a unobscured, breathtaking view of the sea too.
So, we took a morning bus from Newcastle out to the historic costal town of Bamburgh, where we were met with unexpected sunshine and the fresh smell of saltwater. First stop was brunch at The Copper Kettle Tearoom, a quiet little cafe in the middle of town. Then we went to tour the historic Bamburgh castle which overlooked the town. And unsurprisingly for a costal castle of that age, it had a unobscured, breathtaking view of the sea too.
After the castle tour, we stopped into a biergarten to enjoy every drop of rare sunlight on that warm September day. We finished that afternoon with a walk together along the beach, reminiscing our first year married.
We would be staying that night in the Victoria Hotel, in a beautiful castle-view suite. We had decided on the slightly fancier room to help us get over the initial disappointment of a second honeymoon delay; and it worked! It was a lovely room that felt very special for us. Lastly, we treated ourselves to a fantastic Michelin dinner at the Potted Lobster, arguably the most remarkable dinner either of us had ever had. Which meant that Ron was none too pleased about having to wait for my food photos before digging in!
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