"Well, this is ...snug!"

- said D., surveying our accommodation at Lower Bamburgh View. It's the house in which Peter Mortimer wrote 100 Days on Holy Island, and the stone he carved then is still outside. In the interim it has been a bed & breakfast, and this helps to explain the oddities of the conversion. We have two bedrooms and two bathrooms, a pleasant sitting room but a tiny kitchen with literally no food storage space other than the fridge - which is itself not large. The dining table is outside on the patio. It does, durham_rambler assures me, have a view of Bamburgh - it's quite hazy tody, and I can't see it myself, but I believe him.

We are just happy to be here. Last year we stayed home and ignored the solstice; the year before we were in Shetland, which was a delight in its own way. But this year we are back on Lindisfarne, and about time, too!