Lindisfarne Vacations, Lindisfarne Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

This weekend it was quite exciting, I went to Lindisfarne with a bunch of Medievalists. Sadly, we went on the worst weather day possible, but we had a great time anyway! So, we hit up Bamburgh Castle on the way to the Holy Island, and we stopped at this really cute tea house for some breakfast. It was a lot larger than we expected! Sadly, it wasn't open...but it didn't really matter since we didn't have much time to see it anyway. Instead, we passed our time making videos for Tom who c...

Friday Today was the other bookend island for me. I started with Iona on the west coast of Scotland. Today, we went to Lindisfarne, off the east coast of England. Iona is the home of St. Columba, an exiled Irish monk. It's understood to be the home (or maybe just the repository, I'm not entirely clear) of the outstanding Book of Kells, an illumimated manuscript, now resident in Dublin. Lindisfarne was the home of St. Cuthbert, an English monk, and the place where the Lindisfarne Gospels (m...