CHAPTER 20
St Maabs was only about eight miles from Berwick along a mainly single track road that meandered through some of the most rugged, forbidding landscape I’d ever encountered and seemed to lead to St Maabs and nowhere else. Living here through the winter months was definitely not for the faint-hearted.
Brian chatted amiably all the way there filling me in on St Maabs history and what I could expect to find. ‘It’s a small village that tumbles down to a harbour. The cottages are old fishermen’s homes but the place is now primarily a holiday destination. They offer deep sea angling, hiking trails, kayaking and mountain biking mainly. Then a little further up the coast is The Head, that’s a popular place for bird enthusiasts. We get thousands of sea birds nesting on the sheer cliffs
