A very desirable address

This area in Scotland is not short of beautiful places to live, in fact it would be harder to find somewhere unpleasant but yesterday at work I had cause to take a customers address and was immediately drawn into a conversation, nosey as I am!

This couple's address was Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, but they weren't it's owners. It seems that a few years ago a number of apartments were fashioned from original parts of the building and
are now rented to anyone deemed suitable and with the appropriately comfortable income, for comfortable it needs to be at approx. £2000 pcm. That may not be too surprising a sum in a city nowadays but here it is. As a comparison, the rent we pay for our 200 year old apartment in the middle of the beautiful countryside, complete with all 'mod cons', original features and 18 inch stone walls is £170pcm!

That said, if money were not object I could fancy the address 'Bamburgh Castle' and to wake up to those views overlooking the ocean and Lindisfarne must be almost priceless. There is of course a drawback, ain't there always, these apartments come complete with 'sitting tenants' and we are not taking those that a court order can evict!

Believe that stuff or not, of the couple I spoke too, who appeared to be perfectly normal professional '30 somethings', the lady seemed to be without doubt or concern that she regularly sees two young children among one or two other odd 'sightings', her partner however had not. I am skeptic, to put it mildly, where paranormal happenings are concerned but I'm none the less a little unsure if I would like uninvited visitors thrown in with the views and desirable address at £2000 pcm!