Reisgids Slow Travel Northumberland 3

Travel tips and advice covering the Heritage Coast, Hadrian’s Wall, Northumberland National Park, the North Pennines and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Features Alnwick Castle, Lindisfarne, Farne Islands, Kielder Forest, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Cheviot Hills, Dark Sky Park, Bamburgh Castle, and where to eat and stay. Part of Bradt’s distinctive, award-winning series of ‘Slow’ travel guides to UK regions, the, thoroughly updated, third edition of the best-selling Northumberland (Slow Travel) provides a reliable, wide-ranging, detailed and accessible font of inspiration and information for discovering the unexpected, varied and increasingly popular riches of northeasternmost England. Northumberland is much loved for its beaches, wildlife, islands and desolate upland scenery, but despite all the attention and accolades (‘most tranquil county’, ‘darkest night skies in England’, ‘best beaches’), most of the county remains wonderfully crowd-free. Getting away from it all is straightforward, whether you walk all afternoon over moorland and not meet anyone, skinny-dip in lakes, picnic on pristine sands with nobody else around, or gaze at stars in Europe’s largest area of protected night sky – England’s first Dark Sky Park, a 572-square-mile expanse that hosts an annual Dark Sky Festival.