Fortunately we live right by the sea, which is also close to a large area of countryside which has miles and miles of coastal walks.
Easington Colliery is a former mining village. It's now a popular place for walkers, especially dog walkers.
On a clear day the views are stunning, but even in foggy weather the area is still a pleasant place to walk.
Now our house is pretty much finished, and there's not much more work to do on it, we've been more inclined to get outside, and having recently adopted a dog from Stray Aid Rescue Centre (http://www.strayaid.org.uk) we've been out and about enjoying the local scenery a lot more, with lots of lovely long walks.
A part of the Durham coastal walk, which is only a couple of minutes from our house, is a path leading up to a mine lift monument.
Along the walk on the ground are plaques charting some of the history of Easington Colliery. The plaques are thought provoking, they stopped us in our tracks, literally.
As we walked along the path it was hard to imagine what it was like when it was a working colliery, and especially hard to imagine what it would have been like during the miners strike.
But stopping to read all of the historical makers, and just standing still while the words sunk in, we felt a real sense of the history of Easington Colliery.
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