Welcome to the continuation of this mini-series about my long weekend away (see here and here for the earlier posts). This post looks at the journey from South Wingfield to Wooler and the first evening at our accommodation there.
THE JOURNEY NORTH
According to google the journey from South Wingfield to Wooler was going to take just over three hours (relatively quick because most of the distance could be covered on the M1/ A1, and even after leaving the A1 we were not going onto a minor road). A petrol stop early in the journey and a service station stop later added a little time to the basic estimate, but we still arrived at our destination by 17:40.
Then with the aid of a site map we located the particular property we were staying in (there are currently about 30 separate cottages on the site and more are being developed). Setting ourselves up did not take very long, although the fold out bed that I would be sleeping in caused momentary concern.
EXPLORING THE SITE
In the early evening my parents and I took a walk around the site, which proved quite rewarding, and was a good way to bring the day’s activities to a close.
PHOTOGRAPHS
My usual sign off…
A bug exploring the car window 
The Angel of the North (through a window and from the wrong side of a very major road) 
The site map. 
The front door of our accommodation. 
There are ‘vanity plates’ and then there is this! 
An abstract sculpture, maybe intended to represent an apartment block (I have a similarly abstract and minimalist ziggurat sculpture just inside my front door at home) 
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