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Getting nearer:
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Note both are hanging on and not looking over the edge!
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Phew made it! coming back down:
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My personal favourite is Bamburgh Castle with is the most spectacular coastal castle ever.
Going to Bamburgh Castle:
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Again a very steep 1:3 hill which is metalled road until I get inside the castleated walls and then it’s cobbles . At Bamburgh I put them into extended trot as we approach the road up and then once the carriage is moving freely ask for a canter and keep them in a brisk canter for about 1/2 a mile up the hill which switches into a couple of tight turns.
Then to very dark double gated entrances and including one with a steel portcullis and a wooden drawbridge where one groom always dismounts because she hates going over it on the carriage back step! :
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Inside Bamburgh Castle:
There’s a series of tight switch hairpin bends
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We go into Bamburgh on the seaward side out of the walls on an ancient cliff road - again with airy views over the sea.
It’s a very steep drive down too:
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The girls are always pleased to be finished and this is me wheeling them back in and in perfect stride:
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And of course because we’re doing commercial work it’s all got to look elegant and easy and graceful!
Nothing to it!!! :winkgrin: My American carriage driving friend who used to ride rodeo before he got ancient went up a few castles whilst he was here and on the box seat next to me and pronounced it dangerous and with a few American descriptives I couldn’t say here!!
Hearse:
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