Cake Recipe and 360 Panoramic Photo of Sherwood Forest

The LPR web site has had some great new articles submitted and published during the last few days. I quite like the Destinations topic as I like traveling, but my favourite subject has to be "Food & Drink". I've republished probably the most delicious cake recipe submitted so far, it's a mixture of fruits and nuts and is definately one I'm going to try out.

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The recipe below has been picked as today's top article.

Please a Crowd With Famous Hummingbird Cake

For a delicious treat, try this delicious concoction of mashed banana, pineapple, pecans, and cream cheese icing. It has been famous for years and is a very popular and satisfying dessert. While this sweet and flavorful three-layer treat may look difficult to prepare, in fact it can be finished in about an hour. It is an excellent choice for family gatherings and other occasions. It is easy to prepare, freezes well, and serves many. Guaranteed to please.

No-one seems to know for sure how this cake came to be known as "Hummingbird Cake". One legend says the name came about because each delicious bite makes you hum with delight. Another suggests the name is the result of the cake being as sweet as the nectar prepared to attract hummingbirds to our homes. Whatever the reason, this cake will be a real crowd pleaser!
When purchasing ingredients, try to buy the best quality possible. The difference in the taste is definitely worth the extra cost.

Ingredients:

3 cups/750 mL all-purpose flour

2 cups/500 mL sugar

1 tsp/5 mL baking soda

1 tsp/5 mL salt

1 tsp/5 mL gourmet cinnamon

3 eggs, beaten well

1 cup/250 mL vegetable oil

1-1/2 tsp/7.5 mL Premium Vanilla

1 tsp/5 mL gourmet butter extract

1 can (8 oz/227 g) undrained crushed pineapple

1 cup/250 mL chopped pecans

2 cups/500 mL chopped bananas

Frosting

1/2 cup/125 mL chopped pecans

Frosting:

1 package (8 oz/227 g) softened cream cheese

1/2 cup/125 mL butter or margarine, softened

3-1/2 cups/875 mL powdered sugar

1 tsp/5 mL gourmet vanilla nut extract

How to Make Hummingbird Cake:

1) Combine flour with the sugar, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon in large mixing bowl. Mix ingredients together well.

2) Stir in eggs, oil and extracts; stir just until dry ingredients are moist - do not beat.

3) Add crushed pineapple, pecans, and bananas and fold into mixture. Spoon the batter into three well-greased and floured 9-inch/23-cm round cake pans.

4) Bake at 350 F or 180 C for 25 to 30 minutes. Test for doneness with a wooden toothpick inserted in the center. When it comes out clean, the cake is ready.

5) Cool in pans (use wire rack if available) for 20 minutes, remove from pans and cool completely. Use a serrated knife to level the tops of the layers.

6) Spread cream cheese frosting between layers, and over the top and sides of the cake. Sprinkle chopped pecans over the top of the cake. If desired, you can crush additional pecans and press them into the sides of the frosting. Try putting sliced maraschino cherries on top of the cake for a different touch.

Refrigerate for at least 24 hours before serving; the flavors will blend and intensify upon standing. This cake is one of those special recipes that tastes even better the next day, thus it is ideal for preparing a bit ahead of time.

Frosting:

Combine the cream cheese and butter, and beat until smooth. Add powdered sugar and extract, then beat mixture until light and fluffy.

Preparation Tips:

Enhance the banana flavor by processing the bananas in a blender.

Make sure the three cake pans do not touch each other or the sides of the oven. If the pans touch each other, or the sides of the oven, the cake will not bake evenly as it should.

Makes 12 servings.

Article Republished From: Liberated Press Releases a web site that DOESN'T use Google Adsense text links in or around articles.


Author Resource:- Eldon Beard is a Manager with Watkins Products. Enjoy the finest gourmet cooking extracts, spices, seasoning blends, and soup bases, and dessert mixes. Visit our Watkins Products Online Store.

More Wine, Food, Cooking Tips and Recipies

Friday night is WINE NIGHT!

Bank Holiday has finally arrived. A long weekend to relax and perhaps try a few new recipies and glug more than a few glasses of wine.

The LPR directory has had almost 200,000 page views and now has over 10,000 articles. It's been hard work and every editor/article approver deserves a "pat-on-the-back" for maintaining the integrity of our content. Sure a few spam articles slipped through the screening process, but far more were deleted. Visitor feedback has been very positive and much of the LPR traffic is from return visitors. This bodes well for the future.

Another research project was released this week using the Gloc-Rap domain. The niche site deals with wine and food. All pages are updated daily with new information, while the original article remains static. Altogether there's over 180 pages of good wine and food information. If you're stuck for something to read or need a special wine, recipe or food tip, why not give it a go?



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Todays top article at LPR is:

The Raw Food Diet, is it Right for You?

The Raw Food Diet is one of first things that come to mind when someone hears or sees the word "diet". In this type of diet, you only eat foods that are not cooked. In this way, it is believed you gain all of the available nutrients contained within the food. When considering this type of dieting technique, it is important to know the details about what is involved.

The raw food diet is based on idea that everything should be eaten while living, or as close to living as possible. This living material is not necessarily the food, but the enzymes that are in the food. Many of these enzymes are known to die after they reach one-hundred and two degrees. Thus, while cooking foods also kills harmful organisms, it also destroys these important enzymes. Heat also causes the structure of the food to break down and cause the food to become toxic (although the reverse appears to be true in potatoes). Enzymes are often referred to as the energy that is contained in the food.

The first difference that will happen if one begins eating raw food is a change in the balance and functioning of the bodies system. Cooked foods force the stomach to deal with larger molecules, thus leading to the production of more acid. When one eats only raw foods, the stomach acid becomes less dominant in what is passed along to the intestines.

Raw food diets can be divided into several different categories. There are those that are made up of mostly fruit, sprouts, or fruit juices. Depending on which types of nutrients are needed, you change the foods you eat.

Some raw foods will include nuts, in order to get protein. If this is part of your diet, it is best to soak the nuts for twenty-four hours, which allows for the rejuvenation of the enzymes.

There are also several diets that are made up mostly of raw foods, with a few cooked foods on occasion. Usually, a raw food diet consists of a minimum of seventy-five percent raw food.

There are several different changes that those on a raw food diet will notice. The first is that there is increased energy. This also includes an overall improvement in general health. The body will also go through a process to detoxify, and get rid of all the harmful chemicals built up over the years from cooked foods. The immune system is also known to improve with this kind of diet.

If you are interested in a raw food diet, you can expect your body to go through several changes. The raw food diet is one that is well known among several who are interested in changing their lifestyle towards eating different types of enzymes. The results of the raw food diet help with an increase in energy, as well as a change in the balance and functioning of the body. By looking into and researching what the raw food diet will include, you can decide whether it is a right move for you.

Article Republished From: Liberated Press Releases a web site that DOESN'T use Google Adsense text links in or around articles.

Author Resource:- Scott Meyers is a staff writer for Its Entirely Natural, a resource for helping you achieve a naturally healthy body, mind, and spirit. You may contact our writers through the web site. Follow this link for more information on Nutrition and Health .

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You Have Just Got To Try A Bahama Mama

Well, I tried them all... hell of a hangover, but had a great time!

This is the LPR article of the weekend (might be upgraded to article of the month).

Bahama Mama is one of the well known and favorite drinks in the Bahamas. If youre in the island of the Bahamas you can never do away with having a try on this drink. Its a combination of an alcohol fruity taste drink thats totally out of this world as well as refreshing and tangy. Who knows you may even want to have more when you get a taste of it. But you dont really need to be in the Bahamas to take a sip on this drink, all you need is its various recipes, and youre on your way to getting that feel of the Bahamian spirit. Here are some Bahama Mama recipes:

Bahama Mama (Original Recipe)

1/4 oz 151 Proof rum

1/4 oz Coffee liqueur

1/2 oz Dark rum

1/2 oz Coconut liqueur

4 oz Pineapple juice

Juice of 1/2 lemons

How to do it: Combine and stir all ingredients with ice. Strain into a chilled tumbler filled with ice or pour over cracked ice in a Collins glass. Dress up with cherry or strawberry and serve.

Bahama Mama 2

2 oz Orange juice

2 oz Pineapple juice

1/2 oz Heering cherry liqueur

1/2 oz Grenadine syrup

1/2 oz Lemon Juice

1 oz Coconut rum

1 1/2 oz Rum

How to do it: Shake all ingredients combine with cracked ice. Serve in a 12 oz glass and decorate with cherry and 1/2 slice orange in a tooth pick.

Bahama Mama 3

1/2 Bananas

1 splash Grenadine syrup

2 oz overproof rum

4oz coconut milk

4oz Pineapple juice

How to do it: Put all ingredients in a blender with half a cup of crushed ice. Blend well and pour into a tall glass, serve.

Bahama Mama 4

6 oz Pineapple juice

1 oz Nassau Royale rum

1 oz Malibu coconut rum

1 oz Dark rum

1/2 oz Grenadine syrup

How to do it: In a cocktail shaker, shake all ingredients together with ice. Pour with ice into a hurricane glass and serve with a slice of orange.

Bahama Mama NC

3 oz pineapple juice

3/4 oz Banana liqueur

3/4 oz Light rum

1 oz Malibu coconut rum

1 oz Orange juice

1 dash Grenadine syrup

How to do it: In a cocktail shaker, pour all ingredients together and shake well. Pour in a pina-colada glass with cubed or crushed ice. Serve.

Bahama Mama Sunrise

1/2 oz grenadine syrup

2 oz Pineapple juice

1 oz dark rum

1 oz spiced rum

4 oz orange juice

How to do it: Combine and mix all ingredients and serve over ice in a tall glass.

Easy Bahama Mama

1/2 tsp Sugar syrup

1 dash grenadine syrup

1 dash Amaretto almond liqueur

1 Maraschino cherry

2 oz Pineapple juice

2 oz Dark rum

How to do it: Just pour everything over crushed ice in a margarita glass and decorate with a cherry.

All these Bahama Mama recipes will surely afford you that feeling of the Bahamas so get those ingredients, follow the procedures, and shake yourself a Bahama Mama.

Article Republished From: Liberated Press Releases a web site that DOESN'T use Google Adsense text links in or around articles.


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More About the Bahamas

Destination Guides > Central America & Caribbean > Caribbean > Bahamas

Graced with beautiful beaches of pink sand, evocative windswept panoramas and countless opportunities for diving, snorkelling and fishing, the islands of the Bahamas are well established as one of the world's top draws for both intrepid explorers and casual vacationers. An island chain beginning a mere 55 miles east of Miami, Florida, the Bahamas offer an array of tourist hotels, all-inclusive resorts, and even rustic lodges, making staying there a relatively simple endeavour. Indeed, more than three million travellers each year choose the islands as their prime destination for outdoor sports, sun worship, casino gambling and, on some of the slightly more remote spots, eco-tourism.

In total, the Bahamas include around seven hundred islands, no more than thirty of which are inhabited, as well as smaller cays (pronounced "keys") and rocks - an impressive arc stretching from just beyond the Atlantic coast of Florida to the outlying waters of Cuba, where Great Inagua lies only sixty miles offshore. Although deeper oceanic troughs surround some of the islands, most are encircled by shallow, crystalline water that reflects a light turquoise hue during the day and glows with purple luminescence at night. This combination of shallow and deep water makes diving and snorkelling both challenging and intriguing, with numerous reefs waiting to be explored just beyond the shores of the gorgeous, uncrowded beaches.

The native music of the Bahamas is a combination of African and Caribbean rhythms, often played on drums and various skin or pipe instruments. Rake'n'scrape music, prominent on the Out Islands, features rough guitars and percussion instruments made from ratchets and saws; calypso and reggae are also popular.

Traditional Bahamian meals may include seafood like grouper, conch and snapper (usually broiled or baked in a tomato sauce), along with tropical fruits like guava and papaya. As former members of a British colony, Bahamians have adopted many traditional English dishes , or adapted them to suit local tastes. These include macaroni and cheese, peas and rice, boiled potatoes and other vegetable dishes. A Bahamian breakfast may consist of anything from fried eggs, bacon, toast, tomato and coffee to more Caribbean-influenced dishes like johnny cakes with coconut. Lunch tends toward seafood stews and soups or large conch salads.

With tourism expanding to the Bahamas, many different types of imported culinary styles have flourished here as well. On New Providence and Grand Bahama, you can find restaurants serving Continental, Mediterranean and Greek cuisine, and even Mexican and pan-Asian dishes, in elegant surroundings with excellent service and fine wines. Many of these restaurants are located at major hotels and resorts and require reservations, while other eateries in Nassau, Paradise Island and Grand Bahama operate independently and cater to a more eclectic crowd.
Every town or settlement in the Bahamas has its share of take-away restaurants, featuring traditional offerings like fried chicken, french fries and deep-fried seafood . Most Out Island restaurants serve fairly simple and uniform fare, usually fish, conch or fried chicken, with fresh Bahamian lobster a rare treat. Island desserts are often delightful, especially the coconut concoctions, rice pudding, gingerbread and fruit cocktail.

Bahamians are not much for drinking wine or liquor, though the national beer , Kalik, is a fine elixir enjoyed throughout the islands. Fruit juice and soft drinks are popular, and major brands like Coke and Pepsi are predictably ubiquitous. Fast-foo chains have also invaded the Bahamas, and the major islands all feature at least one pizza or hamburger joint from each chain.

Destination Guides > Central America & Caribbean > Caribbean > Bahamas > New Providence > Nassau

Wine History and Origins a Great Article

Somedays, it's great to be choosen to update the LPR company Blog, especially when a really great article gets submitted that's not only well written, but informative and about MY favorite subject... WINE.

Now I just love a glass or three of wine with my dinner and maybe a few afterwards. The thing is, I never once thought about the history and origins of wine.

This is my article of the day republished from LPR:

The Origins of Wine and Winemaking

Wine has a long and venerable history, with references to its use cropping up in ancient texts from thousands of years ago - not least, of course, in the Bible. We know for a fact that it was firmly established in the Middle Eastern culture of around two thousand years ago, and for it to be so commonplace at that time it must have been around for quite some time before that.

Viticulture was certainly a large part of the economy of the Roman Empire, and the spread of Roman civilisation included the spread of wine growing and wine drinking as the colonising soldiers moved across the Old World. In ancient Rome, a common form of wine was known as mulsum, heavily sweetened with honey, and produced on large agrarian estates largely by the slave population. What remained in the wine press after crushing the grapes - seeds and skins mainly - was often fed to livestock, or alternatively brewed into a very low quality 'wine' and given to the slaves who'd grown the grapes.

We also know that winemaking was familiar to the ancient Greeks, from whom the Romans learned so much, and there's physical evidence of this in the form of a stone wine press found in a Minoan villa on the island of Crete, dating back to around 1600 BC. The winemaking facilities discovered there appeared to be quite advanced and sophisticated, suggesting that the Minoans had been practising the art of winemaking for a considerable period before that date.

Prior to this, the trail is a little less clear as we go further back into history. The ancient Greeks had strong trading links with nearby eastern cultures such as Egypt, and although we can't be sure, it seems that it was from the ancient Egyptians that the Greeks learned to make wine.

Physical evidence of wine production in ancient Egypt includes remains of wine jars and stoppers dating back to the earliest years of the civilisation, and wine was used both as a food and a medicine. Wine in pharonic times was not only made from grapes, but also from figs, pomegranates, and other fruits, a practice which continues across the world to this day in the rural production of 'country wines' such as damson and elderberry.

The first great civilisation of historic times was in Mesopotamia, close to Egypt, in what is modern day Iraq and surrounding areas. Although records from this era are sketchy, considering that writing was not invented until the latter part of the civilisation, there is evidence that wine was produced here too. A clay jar bearing traces of what could have been wine has been discovered in what is now northern Iran, and carbon dating shows that it was made around 5000-5400 BC. This is the oldest known evidence of wine consumption, but as this period of pre-history stretches back to 8500 BC, it is likely that winemaking had been known and practised for maybe thousands of years before that.

So, next time you relax with a glass in your hand, ponder for a moment that what you are drinking could be the results of over ten thousand years of cumulative learning and experimentation with the magical process of fermenting grapes!

Article Republished From: Liberated Press Releases a web site that DOESN'T use Google Adsense text links in or around articles.


Author Resource:- Andrea writes for a wine guide site, 1Stop Wine, where you can read wine articles and search a database of relevant sites.

Friday is Fish Day and an Article about Seahorses

Friday is traditionally a day for eating fish, well it was/is in my house. On a VERY slow afternoon, I thought I'd do some research to find out why, while waiting for the clock to tick down and signal "Happy Hour"; the end of another working week.

Fish on Friday

The long-standing Roman Catholic tradition of not eating meat other than fish on Fridays (and of substituting fish for other types of meat on that day) continues to influence habits even in semi-secular and secular societies. Friday night remains a traditional occasion for patronising fish-and-chip shops and many cafeterias and similar establishments, while varying their menus on other days of the week, habitually offer fish and chips every Friday.[11]
Chips may have become associated with meals of fried fish because the fat used for frying the fish often became too hot for good frying. To return the fat to an optimal temperature, chefs dropped cut-up potatoes into the fat. Legend has it that shops initially gave the resultant 'chips' away free with the fish.[source: Wiki - Fish & Chips]

Fascinating to learn that potatoes were added to the menu by "accident". I think it was more likely that better transport made distribution of produce much easier and the two naturally got combined. Given a choice, I'd rather have curry & chips!

This weeks top travel destination article goes to Doug's information about Seahorses in Northumberland which is a good place (sic0) to get a bag of fish & chips on any night of the week.

Fish and Chips in Seahouses

One of many small towns and villages on this under populated stretch of the Northumberland coast is now a resort with a fishing harbour.

Situated on the North Northumberland coast and designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, since 1958 in recognition of the quality of the landscape. Seahouses is the ideal base from which to explore the Scottish Borders and the hills and coastline of this magnificent part of England. The area is best known for its sweeping sandy beaches and open views, rolling dunes and rocky cliffs, isolated islands, dramatic castles, ancient relics and rich wildlife.

You will find everything you need to know about Seahouses and our surrounding area, including the famous Farne Islands and the Longstone Lighthouse. We are a short ride away from most of the major tourist attractions in this part of Northumbria including Alnwick, home of Harry Potter and the Alnwick Garden. A visit to the bird and seal colonies on the Farne Islands is a must during your stay and several boat trips can be taken from the harbour.

You will find listings for all kinds of tourist accommodation with prices to suit your budget. From the casual week end visitor to the summer holiday maker Seahouses can offer accommodation and facilities second to none. There are a wide range of hotels, guesthouses, caravan and campsites in the area.

Dont leave before sampling the delicious fish and chips, watch out for the seagulls. Market day is Friday.

For nearly 180 years the lifeboat station has operated an all weather lifeboat and its crews have been presented with five awards for gallantry. Today the station operates both an all weather lifeboat and an inshore lifeboat it can be found in Seahouses.

The Marine Life Centre is set out on 4 spacious levels. Including a large trout pond where you can feed the fish, a tides out touch pool where you can get hands on with the crabs. The other levels comprise of exhibitions with audio visual conversations between fishing families. A must for all the family.

The Development Trust benefits both tourists and residents with listings of local amenities, businesses and services. The fascinating history of our village has been brought to life with our Heritage Walks around Seahouses. The Guide takes you around three heritage walks which inlcude the coastline, the countryside and the old towns. The walks are entitled The Harbour and Old Seahouses Time Trail. There are nine information panels along the routes a wildlife panel on the sea front. A childrens quiz to accompany the walks will be available from the Tourist Information.

Article Republished From: Liberated Press Releases a web site that DOESN'T use Google Adsense text links in or around articles.

Author Resource:- Douglas Scott works for The Rental Car Hire Specialist. and is a free lance writer for The Seahouses Site

More About Northumberland

The low-lying Northumberland coast , stretching 64 miles north from Newcastle to the Scottish border, boasts many of the region's principal attractions, but first you have to clear the disfigured landscape of the old Northumbrian coalfield. Beyond Amble you emerge into a pastoral landscape that spreads over the thirty-odd miles to Berwick-upon-Tweed. On the way there's a succession of mighty fortresses, beginning with Warkworth Castle and Alnwick Castle , former and present strongholds of the Percys, the county's biggest landowners. Further along, there's the formidable fastness of Bamburgh and then, last of all, the magnificent Elizabethan ramparts surrounding Berwick-upon-Tweed . In between you'll find splendid sandy beaches - notably at Warkworth, Bamburgh and the small resort of Alnmouth - as well as Lindisfarne monastery on Holy Island and the sea-bird and nature reserve of the Farne Islands.

Destination Guides > Europe & Russia > Europe > England > Northeast > Northumberland coast > Seahouses

Alnmouth
It's just three miles north from Warkworth to the seaside resort of ALNMOUTH , whose narrow, mostly nineteenth-century centre is strikingly situated on a steep spur of land between the wide sandy beach and the estuary of the Aln. Alnmouth was a busy and prosperous port up until 1806, when the sea, driven by a freakish gale, broke through to the river and changed its course, moving the estuary from the south to the north side of Church Hill and rendering the original harbour useless. Alnmouth never really recovered, though it has been a low-key holiday spot since Victorian times, as attested by the elegant seaside villas.

Alnwick
The unassuming town of ALNWICK (pronounced "Annick"), thirty miles north of Newcastle and four miles inland from Alnmouth, is renowned for its castle - seat of the dukes of Northumberland - which overlooks the River Aln immediately to the north of the town centre. Alnwick itself is an appealing market town of cobbled streets and Georgian houses, centred on the old cross in Market Place, site of a weekly market (Saturdays) since the thirteenth century.

Bamburgh
Flanking a triangular green in the lee of its castle, three miles north of Seahouses, the tiny village of BAMBURGH is only a five-minute walk from two splendid sandy beaches, backed by rolling, tufted dunes. From the sands Bamburgh Castle (April-Oct daily 11am-5pm) is a spectacular sight, its elongated battlements crowning a formidable basalt crag high above the beach.

This beautiful spot was first fortified by the Celts, but its heyday was as an Anglo-Saxon stronghold, one-time capital of Northumbria and the protector of the preserved head and hand of St Oswald, the seventh-century king who invited St Aidan over from Iona to convert his subjects. Rotted by centuries of seaspray and buffeted by winter storms, Bamburgh Castle struggled on until 1894, when its new owner, Lord Armstrong, demolished most of the structure to replace it with a cumbersome castle-mansion.

The focal point of the new building was the King's Hall, a soulless teak-ceilinged affair of colossal dimensions, whose main redeeming feature is an exquisite collection of Fabergé stone animal carvings. In the ground floor of the keep, the stone-vaulted ceiling maintains its Norman appearance, making a suitable arena for a display of fetters and man-traps.

Berwick-upon-Tweed
Before the union of the English and Scottish crowns in 1603, BERWICK-UPON-TWEED , some twelve miles north of Holy Island, was the quintessential frontier town, changing hands no fewer than fourteen times between 1174 and 1482, when the Scots finally ceded the stronghold to the English. Interminable cross-border warfare ruined Berwick's economy, turning the prosperous Scottish port of the thirteenth century into an impoverished garrison town, which the English forcibly cut off from its natural trading hinterland up the River Tweed. By the late sixteenth century, Berwick's fortifications were in a dreadful state of repair and Elizabeth I, apprehensive of the resurgent alliance between France and Scotland, had the place rebuilt in line with the latest principles of military architecture.

Today, the easy stroll along the top of the ramparts offers a succession of fine views out to sea, across the Tweed and over the orange-tiled rooftops of a town that's distinguished by its elegant Georgian mansions.

Craster and Beadnell
Heading northeast out of Alnwick along the B1340, it's a six-mile hop to the region's kipper capital, the tiny fishing village of CRASTER , perched above its minuscule harbour. There's not a great deal to make you stop long, but you can buy kippers here at Robson's factory and have a pot of tea in the Bark Pots . Even better is the Jolly Fisherman , the pub above the harbour, with sea views from its back window and famously good crab sandwiches. Most spectacularly, however, the village provides access to Dunstanburgh Castle (April-Sept daily 10am-6pm; Oct daily 10am-5pm; Nov-March Wed-Sun 10am-4pm), whose shattered medieval ruins occupy a magnificent promontory about thirty minutes' windy walk up the coast.

Holy Island
There's something rather menacing about the approach to Holy Island , past the barnacle-encrusted marker poles that line the causeway. The danger of drowning is real enough if you ignore the safe crossing times posted at the start of the three-mile trip across the tidal flats. (The island is cut off for about five hours every day, so to avoid a tedious delay consult the tide timetables at one of the region's tourist offices or in the local newspapers.) Once here, it's easy to picture the furious Viking hordes sweeping across Holy Island, giving no quarter to the monks at this quiet outpost of early Christianity.

Today's sole village is plain in the extreme, which doesn't deter summer day-trippers from clogging the car parks as soon as the causeway is open. But Holy Island has a distinctive and isolated atmosphere, especially out of season.

Once known as Lindisfarne , Holy Island has an illustrious history. It was here that St Aidan of Iona founded a monastery at the invitation of King Oswald of Northumbria in 634. The monks quickly evangelized the northeast and established a reputation for scholarship and artistry, the latter exemplified by the Lindisfarne Gospels , the apotheosis of Celtic religious art, now kept in the British Museum. The monastery had sixteen bishops in all, the most celebrated being St Cuthbert , who only accepted the job after Ecgfrith, another Northumbrian king, pleaded with him. But Cuthbert never settled here and, within two years, he was back in his hermit's cell on the Farne Islands, where he died in 687. His colleagues rowed the body back to Lindisfarne, which became a place of pilgrimage until 875, when the monks abandoned the island in fear of marauding Vikings, taking Cuthbert's remains with them - the first part of the saint's long posthumous journey to Durham. In 1082 Lindisfarne, renamed Holy Island, was colonized by Benedictines from Durham, but the monastery was a shadow of its former self, a minor religious house with only a handful of attendant monks, the last of whom was evicted at the Dissolution.

Warkworth
WARKWORTH , a coastal hamlet set in a loop of the River Coquet a couple of miles from Amble, is best seen from the north, from where the grey-stone terraces of the long main street slope up towards the commanding remains of Warkworth Castle (daily: April-Sept 10am-6pm; Oct 10am-5pm; Nov-March 10am-1pm & 2-4pm). Enough remains of the outer wall to give a clear impression of the layout of the medieval bailey, but - apart from the well-preserved gatehouse through which the site is entered - nothing catches your attention as much as the keep . Mostly built in the fourteenth century, this three-storeyed structure, with its polygonal turrets and high central tower, has a honeycomb-like interior, a fine example of the designs developed by the castle-builders of Plantagenet England.

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Tips for Dealing with Hair Loss

Millions of people around the world experience unwanted hair loss. While many think of premature baldness as a predominantly male issue, women are also susceptible. If you're losing your hair, the first thing you need to do is find out why.

The majority of men who experience hair growth problems have a condition called male pattern baldness which is genetic in nature. However, other factors such as certain diseases, medications, hormonal imbalances and stress can also be to blame.

This is why it's so important to see your doctor as soon as you notice the problem. He or she can run a battery of tests to rule out any underlying medical issues that could be contributing to or even causing your hair problems.

If it is determined that your hair is falling out due to a medical problem, the good news is that the problem can often be corrected. Once you receive proper treatment your hair should grow back in.

The postpartum period for new mothers is a perfect example of this. Many women find their hair thins out after giving birth but eventually grows back in. This is due to a temporary hormonal imbalance which corrects itself in due time.

For those who experience stress related hair shedding, finding ways to effectively manage their stress or changing their lifestyle can make a big difference.

Individuals suffering from genetic baldness have several options. There are topical treatments for men and women such as Rogaine which contain minoxidil, an ingredient proven to help regrow hair.

For men, there is a prescription medication called Propecia which is used to treat male pattern baldness. If you're seeking a more natural approach, try massaging the scalp regularly with stimulating essential oils to encourage growth.

You can also try ready-made natural treatments for baldness. There are several natural treatments on the market. Many of them use natural ingredients to increase blood flow to the scalp and block DHT.

Most natural hair growth products probably aren't worth buying. The sellers usually don't give money back guarantees because they know their products don't work. If you are looking for a serious natural product then make sure they give a money back guarantee. If they don't then just move on to the next site.

Ingredients like Saw Palmetto and Nettle Root are often used in Natural treatment mixes. You can get those ingredients at a cheaper price by themselves. However, be careful. Just because they are natural doesn't mean they are safe. I haven't had any problems with natural ingredients but they do tend to cause severe problems in rare cases.

You can also camouflage thinning areas with colored creams and powders which give the appearance of thicker hair. As you can see, there are plenty of options available for dealing with hair growth problems. The key is to find the solution that works best for you.
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