{"id":1915,"date":"2013-05-21T08:42:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T07:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2013-05-21T08:42:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T07:42:12","slug":"a-chance-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/a-chance-encounter","title":{"rendered":"A chance encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The man sitting at Table 7 is walking the entire coastline of the mainland UK to raise money for the Alzheimers Society<\/a> and Alzheimer Scotland”<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris’ comment as we arrived to spend Friday evening, as we do most Friday evenings, at The Swan<\/a> suggested a customer with a fascinating repertoire of anecdotes… As Philip <\/a>was about to head to his room, he came across to say goodnight to Chris and Kirsty, and we all got talking.\u00a0 As he’s passionate about wildlife, fly-fishing, photography and sustainability there were plenty of shared interests to chat about \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 When we discovered that he hadn’t had much publicity for the Northumberland coast section of his walk, a flurry of texts and tweets (at 22:30 on Friday night) led to interviews on BBC Radio Newcastle and Radio Northumberland on Saturday as he walked from Cresswell to Blyth.\u00a0 The other thing we could help him with was transport to Cresswell on Saturday morning, and some company for the first part of the walk.<\/p>\n

Martin collected Philip at 10:00 and accompanied him for a very wet five miles down the coast to Newbiggin.\u00a0 Fulmars<\/strong> <\/em>were soaring steeply above the clifftops, Gannets<\/strong> <\/em>were heading north into the strong breeze and Skylarks<\/strong><\/em> sang overhead during interludes between showers.\u00a0 As they reached Newbiggin a lady came out of her house and put some money into Philip’s collection tin – she had been keeping an eye out for him after hearing his interview on BBC Radio Newcastle!<\/p>\n

Philip’s a fascinating man, undertaking an amazing journey for a very worthy cause so if you can help him in any way, please do;\u00a0 follow him on Twitter<\/a>, donate via JustGiving<\/a> or check the schedule for the rest of his walk<\/a> and think if you can help in some way as he passes along your stretch of the coastline \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The man sitting at Table 7 is walking the entire coastline of the mainland UK to raise money for the Alzheimers Society and Alzheimer Scotland” Chris’ comment as we arrived to spend Friday evening, as we do most Friday evenings, at The Swan suggested a customer with a fascinating repertoire of anecdotes… As Philip was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,107,5,141],"tags":[122,185,191],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-family-and-friends","category-northumberland","category-northumberland-coast","tag-fulmar","tag-gannet","tag-skylark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}