Northern county makes Airbnb list of top trending beach destinations in the world
Airbnb has revealed the trending beach destinations around the world, with the Northumberland coastline making the cut.
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The northern county of Northumberland has been getting lots of attention over the summer, with plenty of pretty beaches that are usually less busy than those in the south.
Airbnb said: "Northumberland is drawing more summer visitors, with searches up over 50 per cent this summer, thanks to its pristine North Atlantic beaches."
One beach that's been highlighted as a must-see is Embleton Bay. It sits on the edge of the North Sea to the east of the village of Embleton.
The bay has a long stretch of golden sands, cool water and it's overlooked by the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle.
Lots of visitors stumble across the bay and are stunned by it's beauty, one wrote on Tripadvisor: "We thought we had seen all the best beaches in Northumberland but Embleton Bay wowed us the most!
"Crystal clear waters, fabulous views of Dunstanburgh Castle and acres of perfect sand and even though weather was fantastic we had the beach practically to ourselves."
Another said the bay was one of Northumberland's "best kept secrets".
Near Embleton Bay is a pub that has previously held the title of 'best beach bar in the UK' - it's called the Ship Inn in Low Newton-by-the-Sea.
It once claimed top spot in a list of the best beach pubs in the country put together by Conde Nast Traveller.
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The publication said: "Low Newton-by-the-Sea is one of the prettiest spots on the Northumberland coast.
"The tiny pub sits in the middle of a horseshoe of whitewashed cottages set around a village green where a cluster of trestle tables face the sea."
The seaside town of Bamburgh also go a mention, and it has been dubbed the best seaside town of 2025 according to Which?.
Other favourites spots along the Northumberland coastline include Alnmouth, Beadnell Bay, and Druridge Bay.
Here are some of our own favourite spots across Northumberland...
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Sun writer Kevin Donald took a trip to Newbiggin-by-the-Sea - one of Britain's most budget-friendly seaside resorts.
He discovered bargain places to grab a bite too like The Coble pub and Caffe Bertorelli where you can pick up a cheap ice cream.
During his trip, one local said he wasn't surprised more people were visiting, he added: "The beach is stunning and there are loads
of nice shops and pubs and cafes to visit but for me, the best thing about the place is the people.
"They are so friendly and welcoming here that you can't help but fall
for the place, it has a lovely community atmosphere."
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Lindisfarne
Sun writer Matt Dathan visited the town of Lindisfarne also know as Holy Island.
The tidal island is a two square mile island and can only be accessed for around five hours a day.
It looks so other-worldly that Matt said he felt as if he were leaving England.
There he discovered ruins of a monastery and Lindisfarne Castle which he said has incredible views — and even includes a toilet that claims to be the 'best loo with a view'.
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Sun writer Jenny Green took a trip up to Northumberland 's Berwick-upon-Tweed, three miles from the Scottish border.
She was spoiled for choice for doggy beach walks, as there's 30 miles of beaches in Northumberland and lots are dog-friendly all year round.
Her favourites spots were Alnmouth Bay where if you're lucky, you can see dolphins and whales swimming just off the coast and Bamburgh Beach which she described as looking like "something out of Game of Thrones".
She also recommended checking out the quirky shops around the market towns, including one called Barter Books in Alnwick, which is a second-hand store housed in an old railway station.
Other popular beach destinations that Airbnb said are on the rise include Conil de la Frontera in Spain where one Sun travel writer went a few years ago.
The Spanish hotspot goes mostly unnoticed by British holiday makers, but our writer discovered pretty beaches with bars and pretty town squares.
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The seaside town of Conil de la Frontera is known for its part in the tuna fishing industry - so there's plenty of tasty seafood dishes to try.
Palermo is the capital of the Italian island of Sicily and has become another trending beach destination.
Hossegor in France also known as "the surfing capital of Europe" is rising in popularity.
It has plenty of beautiful beaches as well as places to shop and dine.
Plus, discover the UK's sunniest beach town that feels like going back in time has 'no arcades' and barely any rain.
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An expert guide to a great (and affordable) late-summer break in Croatia
Here's a tip you can have free: late summer to early autumn is when Croatia is at its best. Temperatures ease, resorts relax and the sea is its warmest. That's not an observation based solely on my 20 years of visiting. Last month the European Travel Commission noted that about nine per cent of European travellers had switched to holidaying in so-called shoulder seasons. Why? Friendly temperatures and prices reduced by half from peak season. Ah yes, the prices. You can spend big on Croatia nowadays, dropping more than a grand a night on premium stays during high season. The question is — whisper it — do you need to? Sure, luxury hotels feel like a treat, a proper indulgence, but if there's one thing I've learnt about Croatia it's that a memorable stay can be found anywhere. You won't find a place with a warmer welcome, and the seas are some of the cleanest in Europe. That's why we've compiled this list of hotels for September and October breaks. It includes a few expensive stays for a splurge, but most are priced for affordable holidays, especially if you look beyond poster destinations such as Dubrovnik and Split. Given our term-time dates, we've skipped family hotels for adult stays: wellness specialists in quiet areas, such as Maslina Resort on Hvar and rural wine hotels including San Rocco in Istria; chic city stays in Dalmatia and rustic bolt holes on island backwaters. All are places to remember how to relax, to discover what Croatians call pomalo, which translates roughly as living free from schedules. You'll know it better as the holiday jackpot. This article contains affiliate links that will earn us revenue Here's a stay in the north Adriatic, and the Kvarner Gulf mountains that most visitors bypass. Restored by a German-Croat family, its farmhouse has expanded organically into an eight-room bohemian village. It's a stay of simple rustic-chic rooms with pea-green shutters, stone the colour of shortbread and original beams (the best have balconies); a bolt hole for reading books and dips in a small pool, and for good organic vegetarian food eaten at a communal table. In short, it is a stay of heart and soul. It's not even remote — the beach at Crikvenica is four miles away and Rijeka is a 30-minute B&B doubles from £87 ( Fly to Rijeka It's a sign of where Cres may be heading that Marriott chose this rustic island for Croatia's first Autograph Collection hotel, which opened in March. It's quite a shift for Cres, a nicely scruffy, Italianate medieval town where you'll eat gelati as small fishing boats chug from the harbour at dusk, yet ten minutes' walk away there's this slick wellness hotel, with sunloungers before the sea and a chef who's shooting for Michelin stars in nine-course tasting menus. The marketing people are calling Cres 'Croatia's often forgotten island'. I'd come soon if I were B&B doubles from £212 ( Fly to Rijeka Before you read this, check the price below. Astonishing isn't it? That's not the reason the Romans called Rab 'Happy Island' (Felix Arba), nor is it why Edward VIII, holidaying here with Wallis Simpson in 1936, felt so, um, joyful he went skinny-dipping. It'll boost your mood too. Rab, in north Croatia, is a love letter to the art of gentle holidaymaking: slow days in a villagey medieval capital, long lunches, 22 sand beaches. The Arbiana was around in Edward's time, and while its classic decor won't make the heart beat faster, it's a charming stay with the sea just Seven nights' B&B from £1,070pp, including flights and car hire ( The Alhambra's Cube Spa was named world's best at the Luxury Lifestyle Awards last year. In 2023 Alfred Keller, its Michelin-starred restaurant, took the top prize at the World Culinary Awards as Europe's best fine-dining hotel restaurant. Not bad for a five-star on a Croatian island few Brits have heard of. Modern Mediterranean sums up the decor in a hotel created from two art nouveau villas integrated by a glass-skinned block. Refined describes the atmosphere in a secluded pine-cloaked bay. Come to indulge between spa and sunloungers on the bay. B&B doubles from £352 ( Fly to Rijeka I chose a backstreet one-star rather than paying over the odds for an out-of-town mega-resort when I first visited Zadar two decades ago. Since then a new breed of central independent boutique stays has helped to raise the profile of Dalmatia's historic third city. This one's as central as it gets, scattering 16 rooms across an early 20th-century house, a 19th-century former military building and a medieval monastery. Such is Zadar's jumble. All are different but united in being elegant, modern and arty without showing off. Delightful breakfasts in a verdant courtyard B&B doubles from £122 ( Fly to Zadar Croatia's first Hyatt Regency arrived in May not in Dubrovnik, Split or Rijeka, but in Zadar. The five-star was installed in the former distillery of Maraska cherry liqueur — Alfred Hitchcock was a fan, which explains Alfred's Bar, with its sea views. Elsewhere the spa hotel has a Mad Men glamour to its streamlined lines. Befitting the brand, it's a work-and-play address with plenty of marble and wood in the 133 rooms but a fine pool on a vast waterside terrace that begs for cocktails. The old town is ten minutes' walk away, or two minutes by barkajoli (rowing boat) B&B doubles from £196 ( Fly to Zadar Exclusivity on Croatia's glossiest island doesn't come cheap. Ultimately it's up to you whether the four luxury suites here on Palmizana island are worth it. They're rather like an Adriatic take on a New Mexico casita: white cotton sheets and terracotta-coloured walls; a glass wall that slides open to the terrace; a hammock between palms and a plunge pool above the sea. But know this: you're on a tiny car-free island ten minutes from Hvar Town by taxi boat. When diners leave, you and the yachties have the bay to yourself. Think Robinson Crusoe in five-star style and you're B&B doubles from £757 ( Fly to Split Don't worry about the mention of 'resort' in the title. There are no tots whooping down waterslides at this 50-room Relais & Châteaux member — no surprise given that this spa hotel bills itself as 'Croatia's first mindful luxury property'. Rather, 'resort' means all that the thinking traveller requires for a sophisticated break near quiet Stari Grad harbour: chic understated decor, Michelin-rated dining in the Terra restaurant, sunloungers by the pool and sunset beats at the A-Bay beach bar. This month it launched a smart 13m speedboat for private excursions or celeb-style transfers from Split airport. Details B&B doubles from £437 ( Fly to Split I was sceptical when this opened in 2021. It looks like the lair of a Bond villain, and you'll need a similar bank balance to afford it. What were eight ultra-luxury suites doing carved into the hillside of an island backwater of the Zadar archipelago? The answer is Croatian starchitect Nikola Basic's concept of a 'landlocked yacht', where glass-fronted rooms frame views of seascapes (and olive groves, but you get the point). Like an exclusive cruise ship, it's escapism with an infinity pool, gourmet restaurant and spa. Unlike a cruise ship, you can leave whenever you want B&B doubles from £666 ( Fly to Zadar • 17 of the best cruises in Croatia The thing you need to ask about Dubrovnik is whether you genuinely want to be in the old town. Magical first thing, it's chocka by 10am in summer. Sometimes it's better to find a nice resort out of the centre offering everything you need and day trip in. 'Everything' at this 371-room five-star, refurbished in 2020, means three restaurants and three bars, a 2,000 sq m spa, a pool bigger than Dubrovnik's main square, knock-out views, and sea activities. It's 20 minutes' walk from the old town and — the clincher — it costs a quarter of the price of most central Five nights' B&B, including flights and transfers, from £1,391pp • Rixos Premium Dubrovnik hotel review: a swish five-star with fabulous views• More hotels in Dubrovnik We all want different things from hotels. For some the location comes first. For others it's style or good wellness facilities. Which brings me to this stay. The century-old five-star of Dalmatia's biggest city is no longer the most luxurious in town, nor the chicest. So why am I a fan? Well, they've spruced up the art deco and added a spa (rooms remain small, mind; corner ones are best). Breakfasts served by lovely staff are eaten poolside. Bacvice beach is moments away. And although a ten-minute walk from the old town, it's always an oasis of B&B doubles from £235 ( Fly to Split There are many cool stays in Croatia's best city. This isn't one of them, although it's one of the most memorable. A former Venetian noble's residence turned into a heritage hotel, it's a lucky dip of Renaissance beams and gothic fireplaces. The hum of laughter and conversation drifts in from the most handsome square in the old town — the corner room Vid Morpurgo has a balcony over the action. Caveats? The rooms are small by modern standards, and the decor is more homely than high end. And there's no parking. You won't find a nicer stay in the action of old Split, B&B doubles from £318 ( Fly to Split • Best luxury villas in Croatia You want Dubrovnik. You also want bygone Croatia. This is the answer. Part of the Adriatic Luxury Hotels group, this once dowdy three-star on a pretty harbour emerged from a complete refurbishment in 2022 to become a bolt hole for the superyacht crowd. The 21-room hotel in a historic house pulls off the neat trick of French elegance without appearing to try too hard. Don't be fooled — such effortless style takes a lot of work. Breakfast on the harbour terrace among potted orange and lemon trees is a joy. Dubrovnik is accessible by regular water taxis. Don't bet on making B&B doubles from £379 ( Fly to Dubrovnik Lesic Dimitri Palace is the luxury choice in dreamlike Korcula old town, but Tara's Lodge is a better bet for beach holidays. Think of this small modern block with 17 minimalist rooms as a four-star beach club. You'll drink morning coffee on a balcony — sea views are worth the extra £30 — then breakfast served by friendly staff. Days will pass between the private beach and Mediterranean cuisine in Mimi's Bistro. What more do you need? Possibly a car. Though Korcula island is accessible by ferry from Split or Dubrovnik, the old town is two miles from the B&B doubles from £118 ( Fly to Dubrovnik All set for an end-of-summer splurge? Then to Brac island we go. It's Croatia's have-it-all destination: gentle harbours with waterside restaurants, day trips to Croatia's most famous beach Zlatni Rat, hourly ferries to Split (Dalmatia's sexiest city) until midnight. The splurge is this adult-only five-star at Sutivan. Where other hotels are greige, it's a stay of bold, Italianate glamour with first-rate spa facilities. A place for lazy days with books beside a beautiful pool or on 280 sq m of private beach. Boats and mini-cabriolets are available to rent. Bikes are free. Luxury B&B doubles from £328 ( Fly to Split Rovinj is the pin-up of the Istrian coast. Seemingly created for Instagram, it has dreamlike Venetian streets and nightmare crowds. A report by Which? Travel in May recorded 133 visitors in Istria for every resident — the second highest number in Europe after the Greek island of Zante. There are a lot of day-trippers, even in September. That's where this adults-only five-star 20 minutes' walk from the old town comes in. The restaurant is excellent, the mood is calm. There's a luxury spa and a large pool. A private beach club sits alongside the hotel. Kick back by day and, when crowds ease and temperatures cool, drift into town to experience one of Croatia's most bewitching small towns hazed by a golden Three nights' B&B, including flights and transfers, from £1,568pp ( Welcome to the 1970s playground of the Adriatic. Rubbing shoulders were Abba, Sophia Loren and, um, Colonel Gaddafi. Look, it was a different era. By the 1980s five stars had become two. In 2022 it reopened after a £34 million spend that included gutting the place, and promptly won hotel of the year at the Croatian Tourism Awards in 2023. Radisson spent big because the location is peerless: beside the sea on a pine-clad bay yet three miles from central Pula. Perhaps also because vast Seventies spaces upgrade nicely into a refined modernist aesthetic. Jet2 has a new Pula route this year. What you save on flights, splurge here B&B doubles from £184 ( Fly to Pula • 18 of the best Croatian islands to visit In the 2017 movie Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, filmed on Vis island, Donna says she aims 'to make memories'. What she really sought was a bohemian lifestyle on an island far out to sea. Enter this relative newcomer to Croatia's most far-flung inhabited island. The ten-room stay in a historic harbour house is a fine match for a destination that gets more boho-posh by the year. Fine art photography on the walls, cool rattan armchairs, lovely staff, bikes to borrow ― it nails laid-back luxury. Expensive, perhaps, but what price the opportunity to live out the Mamma Mia! fantasy of a simple, stylish life for a fortnight?Details Two nights' B&B from £728 ( Fly to Split This is the year to visit Hvar, Croatia's glitziest island. Negative headlines from a modest beach club scene led authorities to introduce noise restrictions in March (85 decibels, in case you're wondering) and there's a no-nonsense approach to misbehaviour. The goal is to return Hvar Town to being a buzzy small harbour with Venetian Renaissance architecture. Good luck to them, but if you're choosing to visit you'll probably seek some nightlife, so it makes sense to stay somewhere modern, stylish and beside the water. This fits the bill. Boats bob outside, Carpe Diem cocktail bar is opposite and Hula Hula beach club is just around the bay. Details B&B doubles from £253 ( Fly to Split The Elafiti island Lopud has shifted from backwater to Dubrovnik day trip in the 20 years I've been going. Obvious, really — the harbour's pretty, Sunj beach has sand. Anyway, that's where Sipan island comes in. The castaway cool of Bowa beach club aside, the next island on is the anti-Lopud: three miles of nicely scruffy harbours, vineyards and Renaissance chapels. Most people get around on foot. If you're after nothing more than books, strolls, swims and quiet nights, you'll fit right in. The Kristic family's hotel is spotless, friendly, has a small pool and is bang on the sea. They'll transfer you from the airport by B&B doubles from £120 ( Fly to Dubrovnik Second cities such as Sibenik make for more rewarding breaks. They're generally quieter, have fewer tourists and are better value. This hotel, which opened in 2021, proves the point. It compacts all that is good about this small overlooked city in Dalmatia — an old town with a splendid cathedral, good restaurants, sea views — into a small hotel installed in a 17th-century monastery. Open the shutters and you'll see either old stone the colour of ivory or sea and islands that beg for day trips by ferry. Wallow in a rooftop hot tub and you'll see the cathedral spire above roofs. Now check out the price. Beat that, B&B doubles from £117 ( Fly to Split Trogir's fate is to be near Split airport and too often bypassed. Yet Unesco describes it as one of Europe's finest small towns: Romanesque churches, palaces from centuries under Venetian rule. So it is. What it doesn't say is that it has a pretty harbour that seems purpose-designed for pottering around. Stay at this pleasure palace for discerning aesthetes, sophisticated in its Scandi metropolitan style (geometric print throws, rugs skimming parquet floors) while being relaxed. There's the requisite spa plus two pools. The 'beach' of the name is scruffy shingle, but there are sandier stretches on neighbouring Ciovo island, linked by bridge. Parents rejoice: there's a babysitter B&B doubles from £175 ( Fly to Split For romance — historic lodgings, morning coffee before day-trippers arrive, siestas after lunch, strolls to bed after dinner — only the old town will do. This intimate house fits the bill nicely. On a narrow side street, it has 16th-century stone and beams in suites — smaller Standard and Attic rooms are in an adjacent cottage — but cons are mod. Decor is understated, with white walls and buff fabrics upholstering antique furniture. While rooms in the house have modest kitchenettes (those in the cottage share a kitchen) breakfasts are served in-room. Luggage transport into the old town is a nice B&B doubles £368 ( Fly to Dubrovnik Throughout August, Zrce beach on Pag island is Croatia's answer to Ibiza. Go in September or early October and the island reverts to its older self: bare pink-white mountains as austere and magical as a desert, still inlets and modest holiday resorts like Novalja. You're a couple of miles outside Novalja at this rural wine hotel. I first visited when it opened in 2003 and it remains criminally under-valued; one of those little black book finds. Here 11 rooms and suites make a virtue of simplicity, Michelin-starred chef Matija Breges does creative things with island dishes and staff are B&B double from £182 ( Fly to Zadar The 'Rocco' was one of Istria's first smart wine hotels when it opened in the northern wine hills in 2004. It has been eclipsed by more luxurious stays since, but you'll get a week at this 13-room place, with flights, for the price of three nights elsewhere. You're hardly roughing it either. Expect beams and stone walls, a pool and modest spa, free bikes, estate olive oils and wines in the restaurant. Better, it's not isolated like some rural stays, sitting at the edge of Brtonigla, a town yet to be overtaken by tourism. If you want that, it's ten miles away on the coast and in hill-town Motovun. Details Seven nights' B&B, including flights and transfers, from £1,533 ( Do you have a favourite hotel in Croatia? Share it in the comments
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Young man, 29, left 'traumatised' after 'quick trip' to the doctor overseas takes a brutal and terrifying turn: 'I need to get home urgently'
A popular UK adventurer, who previously lost his leg in a motorbike accident, has now experienced a devastating new setback after a bizarre hospital incident. Luke Tarrant quit his job as an investment banker in 2023 to embark on a motorbike voyage across the US and Antarctica. But only eight months into the trip of a lifetime, Luke's plan came crashing down in South America when he suffered a life-changing motorbike accident in Colombia. In May 2024, doctors confirmed that in addition to suffering numerous significant injuries, Luke's left leg was 'dead' and needed to be amputated. But instead of letting the loss of his leg become a setback, Luke has since gone on to inspire his enormous 500,000 Instagram following with his positive attitude and continued zest for adventure. Luke's latest goal was to climb one of the highest peaks ever attempted by a person with disabilities - by scaling a mountain more than 5000m high in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia. But all of that changed this week. The typically upbeat man took to his social media account to share a sombre and devastating health update. 'I'm gutted, traumatised and honestly just fed up,' he wrote in a caption alongside a video. Just days out from his ascent, which he'd planned to begin on August 22, Luke said he noticed a fluid build-up around the area where his leg had been amputated. Under the advice of his usual medical team back at home, it was recommended that Luke attend a hospital in Kyrgyzstan to have the cyst examined and drained by a doctor. But according to Luke, what should have been a simple fluid drainage procedure became a brutal act that defied explanation. 'I'm honestly completely traumatised,' Luke said in the video. 'Basically, I had an abscess in my leg or a slight inflammation. And I was advised by people in the UK that it was worth getting some fluid taken out of it.' Luke recounted attending the unnamed hospital and speaking to some of their English speaking medical staff. He claimed he was at pains to explain that he didn't want to do 'anything big' and just wanted them to use a 'small needle to get a bit of fluid out' before he commenced the climb. A heartbreaking video shared by Luke on August 13 saw him detail how his planned mountain climb in Kyrgyzstan had been derailed. A 'gutted' Luke alleged that a routine fluid drainage procedure in hospital was mishandled Despite the assurance that the medical staff understood his request, Luke alleged that what happened next was 'traumatising'. 'The doctor comes out and he's prodding around, prodding around,' Luke recalled. 'He gets a scalpel, he cuts right down my leg in front of me while I'm just there awake in my wheelchair.' By this point, Luke was demanding to know what was going on - all while the doctor was opening the wound with forceps. 'I'm like, "Please stop this". They're all speaking to each other in Russian. No one's telling me what's going on,' he said. 'Next thing I know, he's getting some tweezer things and he's pulling bits out and he's like digging around and cutting. I'm in absolute agony. I'm like asking him to stop. 'I'm now looking down [and] I can see the bone in my leg.' By this point, Luke recalled that he was 'in complete agony and shock'. 'I've gone pale. I'm trying not to pass out.' The disability advocate claimed the ordeal lasted 25 minutes and by the end of it there was 'a massive gaping wound in my leg.' After the procedure, Luke said he proceeded to inform his stunned doctors back at home. '[T]hey were like, "It's absolutely insane what they've done to you. You're a massive risk of infection",' he recalled. They advised Luke against completing the planned trek or even wearing his prosthetic. 'I'm no longer climbing the mountain. It was meant to be a world first for people with disability and it's just turned into this,' a downcast Luke confirmed. Luke had planned to complete the trek alongside former professional rugby player Ed Jackson, with the pair raising money for the charity Millimetres 2 Mountains. The video concluded with Luke saying that he was now urgently flying home to the UK to go to hospital. A subsequent update post showed pictures of Luke in hospital in his home country – but unfortunately the news wasn't great. '[T]he wound is down to the bone and infected,' he revealed. 'They did a procedure to clean it which was agony and may need to operate next week,' he continued. 'Worst case if it spreads to the bone, will need to have my knee chopped off… best case is weeks off my prosthetic in the wheelchair. 'They said what the guy did to me in Kyrgyzstan medically is insane,' he wrote, before concluding with a thank you message for all the 'support' from his followers. The subdued video and update posts were a marked change to Luke's normally upbeat and positive attitude. Accordingly, his fan base was quick to rally around him, offering not only thousands of likes on his Instagram posts, but also inspiring messages of support, encouragement, and resilience. 'Luke. This is part of your journey. It's not the one you asked for, but it's the one you got,' read the start of a lengthy message. 'A year from now you'll be on the top of that mountain despite all circumstances and you'll discover that it was never about the mountain. YOU are the mountain. You got this. You'll see,' the message concluded. 'Yours was never going to be a straightforward comeback story,' commented another person. 'But you eat setbacks for breakfast and there'll be bigger adventurers and more world firsts waiting.' 'Your sad face honestly breaks my heart, Luke! I'm SO sorry you're going through this nightmare,' read the start of another longer reply. 'Time to focus on your recovery, trying to be as positive as you can. You did it once, you can do it again,' they added. 'You're our mentality monster pal, life throws you speed bumps so you can show us how it's done,' explained another inspirational response. 'It's a hefty burden you carry, especially with only one leg, but you're doing a better job than any of us could have imagined despite all the odds. That's why we all find you so inspiring,' the reply continued. 'This is the real work, disappointment and readjustment is much harder to cope with than any mountain. You got this.'
South Wales Argus
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Abergavenny pub with Airbnb apartment on market for £350,000
The business, valued at a guide price of £350,000, is being handled by estate agents Sidney Phillips. The Waenllapria property includes a 40-seater lounge bar/restaurant and a 28-seater public bar, alongside an upgraded self-contained owner's flat and an additional one-bed Airbnb apartment. The pub's ground floor is split into two main areas: the lounge bar/restaurant and the public bar. The lounge bar/restaurant, with its boarded floor and feature fireplace, offers seating for 40 diners. According to the estate agent, the room also benefits from a 'considerable amount of additional light' due to roof lanterns. The catering kitchen is described as 'well equipped' with a four-section galvanised extraction canopy and a selection of stainless steel catering effects and work surfaces. The ground floor also features a large freezer room, dry store, beer cellar, bottle store, and a boiler room. The public bar, which has a beamed ceiling and antique brick surround open fireplace, can accommodate 28 seated customers. This room has direct access to the trade garden, which is terraced and part patioed and part lawned. The pub also offers a set of ladies' and gentlemen's customer toilets, along with disabled facilities. The first floor of the pub has been divided into two separate apartments. The first apartment, currently occupied by the owners, offers a large open plan living area with a kitchen/diner and lounge, a double bedroom, and a modern bathroom. The second apartment, which has just been finished, is planned to be let out on Airbnb to take advantage of the high demand for accommodation in the tourist area. This apartment consists of a kitchen/lounge/diner, a double bedroom with an ensuite shower room. Car parking is available at the front of the property, with space for eight vehicles, and in a large rear gated compound, mainly used by the owners. The agent suggests this area could also be utilised by residents of the Airbnb accommodation. The property also includes gardens and two car parking areas. A tarmacadam car park to the front of the property can hold eight vehicles, while a large rear compound, mainly used by the current owners, can accommodate a further two or three vehicles. According to Sidney Phillips, the rear parking area could also be used by Airbnb guests, as it is adjacent to the accommodation access.
