Unlikely destinations.............Hartlepool!

Our bolthole is Ferry Meadows at Peterborough ,and we have met over the many years of useing the site numerous people who cannot believe how much there is to do in the area,

Some years ago a warden said to us people come here for a couple of days stopover,then book on and book on then when leaving say" how do we tell our friends we have just spent two weeks in Peterborough"

We have recently some time at the Club site White Water Park at Stockton on Tees and I would say not only is the site one of the best Club sites I have stayed on but a fascination area. See here Industrial Archaeology is a particular interest to mine and that area is rich in that subject. 

David

especially if you want to see a good hanging sailed out of the marina some years ago when it hadnt long been open

Very pertinent post Val as I am currently putting an itinerary together that will include the area around Middlesborough and Hartlepool for next year. It will probably start near the Humber and we'll work our way up to Northumberland for late Spring and Summer.

I was reading a book about bird sites last night that mentioned Saltholme plus quite a few others around the Tees. Then there's the railway heritage of the area to see. 

Hope we'll be able to get in now that you've given the game away.

Chap that bought my last yacht keeps it at Hartlepool.  Trincomalee was previously the TS Foudroyant and was moored in Portsmouth harbour for many years.

If you're up that way here's another place to add to the list, The National Glass Centre....looks like it has a good café too. It's near Gateshead, so a bit further north. Recommended by a family member who visited recently.

National Glass Centre LINK

The fish and chips at the chippie opposite Saltburn Pier are second to none!

And the Indian Restaurant, the Sheesh Mahal, in Seaton Carew is pretty good too!  

You have to dismiss the industrial architecture on both sides of the Tees, which is brutal, but no longer the smoky, chemical smelling place it once was!  And nature is obviously happy there - witnessed by the huge number of different birds, including skylarks which you don't often hear these days, lots of butterflies and other insects, and the seals - which have re-colonised what was once a very polluted river - the only harbour seals in Europe to ever re-colonise an area.  

This post did make me laugh, just prior to our first of many trips to FM my wife said  "what the *ell are we going to Peterborough for ?😂😂.