Spent the last weekend in Newcastle, ostensibly to visit the Uni with Mat but it also gave Helen and I an excuse for a weekend away somewhere we hadn’t been before.

Rather than what would have been a five hour car journey we elected to let the train take the strain, which was a lot more relaxing.

The first shock on reaching Newcastle and stepping into a taxi was that they speak a different language up there and we had left our phrase book behind! The taxi driver was just incomprehensible.

While Mat looked round the Uni, Helen and I sneaked off to check out the town. Compact is how I would describe it. We were easily able to work the length and breadth of the city, taking in all the sites, without too much trouble.

They clearly like bridges in Newcastle with about five in a very short stretch of the Tyne but the most impressive of the lost has to be the Gateshead Millennium Bridge which looks stunning at night. The Tyne bridge was also impressive looking like the Sydney Harbour Bridge but what I really liked was how the buildings seemed to be squeezed into the surrounding space – it really reminded me of the descriptions in Iain Banks ‘The Bridge’.

A bonny time was had by all as you will see from the pictures below:

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