...NOTHING beats the feeling of salt in your hair, salt on your skin, sandy feet...& the sound of wet happy kiddos...NOTHING
...don't get me wrong...we LOVE the english countryside too...the roses...the farms...the village...but we were brought up on salt spray & faded beachtowels....
...& then last weekend...as if someone knew we needed it...we found OUR little part of home...our little australian/english coastline...the place we will return to time & time again whilst we are here....
...the place where our kiddos were *right at home*...without even realising they were, as it's just such an intrinsic part of who they are
...the place where our kiddos just *hung out* as thought they'd been there before...
...the wild coastline that is northumberland
...being a *smidge* south of scotland- due to emporer hadrian building his big ol'wall & all...this coastline was an instant embracing reminder of home
...but we loved it for it's farming connection also
...a beach that is reached through a farm is a wonderful thing
...i turned a blind eye to their full length wetsuits...it is the bracing *north sea* after all!
...& little a & i made endless sandcastles under the watchfull gaze of the most beautiful ruin of a castle we have ever seen
...we've never sat on a beach watched over by a 15th century castle...
...the hubster pronounced *Dunstanburgh Castle* his *favourite & his best*
...but to surf under the gaze of a castle on the beach...heaven for an aussie beach boy...
...heaven for an aussie gal...albeit a slighty beach-*flotsom & jetsom*-obsessed aussie gal, was the way of village life along this magical coastline
...stone cottages...sanddunes...fishing boats...harbours...fishing paraphenalia...& rockpools
...i absolutely cannot get enough of crab pots & boat ropes
...i blame that on the loving-good judgement of my folks moving me from the edge of the city to the beaches
...& on wonderful holidays off the isle of skye,scotland with another mad-crab-potting galfriend for family holidays
...absolutely never enough for me...
...so our salty family is now back in the farming village we call home
...a little sunkissed & very happy to have found our little piece of home only a *wee* 3 1/2 hours drive away
...we've had a taste after a long while away....seafood & salt and we LOVED it...
...it's in our genetic makeup...it's who we are...
...here's hoping our next little *escape* to france will indulge us with more of the same...
...roll on summer...
...with salty farms by the sea...
