The Badger and the Bear Outdoor Adventure Camp

For those of you who aren’t quite done with the walking part of your break, there’s no need to put the brakes on, as the Simonside Hills (20 minutes’ drive) have a circular walk, The Drake Stone (35 minutes) has a walk coupled up with prehistoric rocks and Winter's Gibbet (40 minutes) has both walking and cycling routes to an old hanging post… spooky, right? There are more attractions around here that have a place in the history books and that includes Alnwick Castle (25 minutes), Belsay Hall's medieval castle, Victorian tearoom and gardens (35 minutes) and two National Trust properties. Of these, Cragside (20 minutes) is from the Victorian times (with a gardens, woodlands and tearoom) and Wallington (half an hour) is a country house where cruising on a bicycle is one way to pass the time. While you’re out and about, you might want to do a round of the local market towns, Rothbury (15 minutes) and Morpeth (20 minutes), or perhaps Northumberlandia (25 minutes) for a pretty huge earth sculpture. As for those places that are likely to keep the kids entertained, there are the pedal tractors at Northumberland Country Zoo (15 minutes), the rides at Whitehouse Farm Centre (half an hour) and Kirkley Hall Zoological Gardens (half an hour), all with animals.