Willoughby  Lodge is one of a few holiday properties attached to a farm in Pesspool Lane, Heswall - to the east of Durham and not far from the coast at Seaham

The very comfortable accommodation is decorated in a unique, bordering on

idiosyncratic manner, and the lodge is situated in a well-designed landscape

After arriving on Friday (with a stop at Thirsk on the way)

we spend the Saturday at the Beamish Museum

Beamish is a world famous open air museum, telling the story of life in

North East England during the 1820s, 1900s, 1940s and 1950s