A Walk A Week: Lent Walk 3: Bede's Way Whitburn to Monkwearmouth

Because I have only half days to walk in at the moment, I've split Bede's Way up into three sections to be walked over Lent. This is the first bit and the others will follow not necessarily in order. I wanted to walk from Whitburn to Monkwearmouth so that I could finish up at the church and the cafe.

So I bussed out of Shields to Front Street and then followed the instructions on the Bede's Way leaflet - down past the church, along the footpath by the park to the coast road. Then followed what is rapidly becoming one of my favourite walks in the north east - all along the seafront at Seaburn and Roker. It was a fine but breezy day and the sea and sand looked glorious. I wanted more than anything to be able to share it with a friend of mine who is grieving at the moment, maybe one day I will.

I continued down to the marina and then past the National Glass Centre and the university to St Peter's church. Due to the limited time I didn't explore the church as I might have done, but I did manage tea in the cafe.