Wow - St Abbs is worthy of a visit anyway, but if you are a Marvel fan than this is a must! A spectacular harbour is easily accessible, with a car park (£1 for an hour, £5 all day) right next to it. You can walk around the harbour an stand right where all the action was filmed. Then you MUST make your way on foot up to the Visitor Centre, where there is a big 'New Asgard' sign you can take outside and pose with - along with Thor's Hammer! Are you worthy?! Do make time to talk to Susan in the Visitor Centre, she is an amazing mine of stories about the heady days when Hollywood visited in May 2017 to film the Endgame scenes. Her enthusiasm is just superb. There are some great gifts in the shop, plus a little film showing the scenes from Endgame, so you can make sure you go and stand in...
Read moreIt was a real bonus to find that St Abbs has a Visitor Centre with lots of the history of the village, the local industries, including the lifeboats and also that it was used as the scene for New Asgard in the Marvel movies. The Visitor Centre is light and bright, not very big but absolutely crammed full of information in various formats. The lovely lady on the desk was kept busy with lots of questions about the films, the lifeboats, the diving etc. There is a section about New Asgard and also Thor’s hammer. What I found most interesting was the very powerful telescope pointing towards the Coastal Path which gave amazing detail. Well...
Read moreLovely informative visitor centre with a glorious view, and an easy walk (if you are able) down into the harbour and the bay, or over to the Old Schoolhouse coffee shop.. and of course if you are a walker it's easy access to the clifftop walk too. And of course the bonus of Avengers memorabilia and alittle Thor experience with views and his hammer 😉 which you can hold and have your pic taken with.
The volcanic Bay below is...
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