Great house in a lovely location, away from it all, with everything we could need for our family with our 3 young/adult children and a large beast; Sarah and family were more than helpful and our dog enjoyed romping with their pack! However local amenities in terms of shop and eating out were limited because of COVID, so can't comment on the local pub, village shop or castle unfortunately. Consequently we drove more then we'd planned. In our two weeks we....canoed, walked the dog in the forest and visited the Minotaur maze (that's fun and thought we'd lost the dog!), cycled (cycle hire at the bottom of the hill is great and we even tried an electric bike), mountain biked on pretty challenging, technical trails, visited Hexham, Newcastle and Angel of the North, Edinburgh, Durham, Bamburgh castle and beach. A visit to Vindolanda was fascinating. Kitchen was well equipped for evening meals, lots of fridge space (we stocked up as no nearby shops) and the hot tub was a bonus! The only problem was the midgies but got some spray and that worked well. Local driving was fun as many local roads are Roman - up and down with lots of blind summits but dead straight....quite different!
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