Had a great dinner last night at the Cottage Inn, Dunstan. Dominic had a seafood mornay followed by a sticky toffee pudding and I had a venison steak - yum.
It seems the other walkers that we met are not German but Dutch. My mistake as I was going on their accents but when I heard them speak it was clearly Dutch.
Today we walked from Dunstan/Craster to Seahouses - about 18km. We were smart enough to ask the locals before we set off, if there was a way we could bypass Craster as we had seen from the map that we could probably take a public path (love the English public rights of way) to Dunstan Square and thence directly to the coast. This brought us out just south of Dunstanburgh Castle of which I know absolutely nothing but will look it up.
Walking around the western side of the castle brought us to the coast again where the high cliffs protecting the castle from seaborne attack were quite impressive. As we walked along through largely unremarkable farmland and dunes we met a few people, all of whom gave us friendly greetings and some were up for a slightly longer chat. We also passed by a couple of golf courses but not many people playing.
By the time we reached Beadnell we were ready for lunch but had to traverse most of the village before we found the pub. After a long drink we had a great hamburger with trimmings. On the menu we also saw something we had seen somewhere else but didn't know what it was "Prawns + Marie Rose". We asked the barman and it turns out that Marie Rose is not the name of a mystery ship (vis Marie Celeste) but simply a particular cocktail sauce. When we had just about finished our meal the barman brought us a sample of prawns and the subject sauce - very nice.
The last part of the walk today, from Beadnell to Seahouses, followed the road and we easily found our accommodation where we were glad to zonk out for a while. We will have to go out for dinner later but need to clean up first.
