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    • TravelerTyne and Wear
      Day 3

      Newcastle; across the city to Quayside

      October 23, 2022 in England ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

      Newcastle is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear and located on the River Tyne's northern bank.  Originally dependent on its port and, in particular, its status as one of the world's largest ship building and repair centres, the city today is much more diverse. 

      The first recorded settlement was Pons Aelius ("Hadrian's bridge"), a Roman fort and bridge across the River Tyne; it then became part of the powerful Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria.  Newcastel is named after its castle; originally a wooden castle in the Norman times, it was replaced by a stone castle and then rebuilt again in 1172 during the reign of Henry II.

      We start the walk across the city at the West Walls section of the Newcastle town wall, which was built during the 13th and 14th centuries to help protect the town from attack and occupation during times of conflict.  We then walk up towards St James' Park, the home of Newcastle United FC; this is close to Chinatown, one of five in the UK, and we walk through this and pass the Catholic Cathedral Church of St Mary.  We reach Newcastle Central Railway Station; outside of this is the Stephenson Monument, a memorial to George Stephenson who developed the 'Rocket', an early locomotive, with his son Robert and pioneered rail transport and the development of the first passenger railways.  There is a good view of the Newcastle Castle Keep from the station car park.

      As we carry on east we pass the Rutherford Memorial Fountain - a distinctive red sandstone drinking fountain is located at the top of the Bigg Market - and enjoy another view of the Castle from the road here before reaching Newcastle Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Nicholas.  We pass the historic Black Gate, originally the castle’s fortified gatehouse or barbican; this is close to the Moot Hall which was commissioned as a courthouse to replace the facilities at the Castle. 

      We now descend to walk along Quayside and see the magnificent and iconic bridges that cross the River Tyne from Newcastle to Gateshead on the other side (see photo captions); these are beautiful both by day and night.

      A brief visit to Newcastle, but "I'll be back".      Read more

    • TravelerVeni vidi vici
      1
      Day 4

      Carlisle

      September 27, 2022 in England ⋅ ☀️ 9 °C

      I had a pretty busy day today. The only thing that I had left to do in Newcastle was visit the Hancock museum. The Hancock museum had also figured prominently in the on line course that I had taken. It was good to go and check out some of the items that they had discussed. These items can be broken down into items made of stone-think temple stones, grave markers or markers to celebrate Roman individuals or small items that were lost. It has been almost a thousand years since Roman times so what would you expect. It is interesting how much information can be extrapolated from such materials. They also had some bronze age stuff- think bog People and some Angle Saxon stuff which I took in. The rest of the museum was a Natural Science museum which I had sworn off this summer after visiting the Natural Science museum in Ottawa this summer. I did get sucked into looking at the stuff.

      I didn't dally too long at the museum as I had to go back to the hotel get my luggage and catch the 1:30 train to Carlisle. I wanted to use the English Heritage pass to get free entrance into the Carlisle castle. The train ride was very pleasant once we got away from Industrial Newcastle.

      The Carlisle castle keep looked very much like our legislature in Alberta as it was covered in Plastic wrap for renovations. I have a theory about visiting castles. They look alot better from the outside as from the inside. I wandered around a little on the inside and on the battlements but there wasn't a whole lot to see.

      Carlisle is a pretty provincial town with many of the buildings made with Red stone. I have been having phone problems. I bought a Sim card off of Amazon from a third party. The card said 5G but was truly only 2G. I could get data but not voice which I will need to call a taxi today. I stopped at a phone shop. It took the woman in the shop 15 minutes but she finally figured out the Sim card was data only. She sold me another card and I am all good to go.

      Supper last night was Thai. I asked for spicy and was it ever spicy.

      I experienced the energy shortage at my B and B in Carlisle. They didn't turn the heat on but fortunately I had a very heavy Duvet and blanket.      Read more

    • TravelerVeni vidi vici
      Day 3

      Newcastle

      September 26, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

      I made it to Newcastle as planned. Edmonton-Calgary-London Heathrow-Newcastle. It was 18 hours from when my first flight. I slept more than I thought I would on the transatlantic flight but Leighla the eight year in the seat beside me kept kicking me. She and her mother were off to Oxford to join up with their father who was training on flight simulators for the new Cormorant helicopter. They were otherwise quite charming and had left Comox 10 hours earlier than I had so I could forgive Leighla. By the time I got to Newcastle it was dark. The train trip was easy however walking around in downtown Newcastle to find my hotel using Google maps was a little unnerving. I looked left rather than right once while crossing the road and came close to being hit by a car. I have been more careful since. The hotel is very nice and quiet so I had a good first night.

      During my travels yesterday I noticed that the soles of both my hiking boots were coming detached. There was no way they would last the trip. I found a shoe repair place and headed there first thing this morning. I dropped them off and they were ready by the afternoon. That was a relief as I think it would have been a challenge doing the hike in running shoes.

      My main priority for Newcastle was to visit Segedunum the Roman fort at Wallsend near the mouth of the Tyne river. They had talked alot about it in the online course I had taken. I enjoyed walking around the excavations and the gallery but the less passionate may have not enjoyed as much. Mr toilet paper holder man who is travelling with me got very excited as they had stones from a Roman latrine they had excavated in the museum. It was the highlight for him. He wanted a selfie. What was very odd, if one get over the oddness of travelling with the pathology departments toilet paper holder is that 2 people who saw me take the photo came up and showed me their travel companions. No toilet paper roll covers. They actually suggested that when in London I should go to the Victoria and Albert museum to get a photo with an original Crapper toilet. Mr TPHM is not running the trip. It is about the experience not the Instagram photo.

      We headed off to Tynemouth on the coast afterwards on the recommendation of another seat mate. There are the ruins of a monastery on a point looking out at the ocean. Tynemouth was a pretty village and the monastery and views of the ocean were very beautiful. Well worth the visit.

      After picking up the hiking boots, we headed downtown for a stroll around. We took in the Laing gallery, a pleasant little gallery with some great paintings by artists unknown to me. We then headed down to river to check out the castle, the cathedral and walk back to the hotel along the river.

      Tomorrow we off to Carlisle.      Read more

    • Sojourn Britannia
      Day 19

      Newcastle upon Tyne

      September 14, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C

      Chris and I were not ready to take in the sheer grandness of Newcastle. This city is not like ours in Australia. It is a full on, wall to wall demonstration of Victoriana. But I'll get to that.

      The drive up was uneventful. We passed the Angel of the North statue but in a goodly amount of traffic and so did not stop. We can say, we've seen it.

      Once safely ensconced in our top floor apartment overlooking the Tyne Bridge and the High Level Bridge, we headed out for a walk. Our amazement at the buildings in this city just grew by the moment. There was little use in putting your camera away, as every angle, every vista brought something new and incredible.

      From Grey Street that culminates in a 'Nelson's Column-like pedestal with Earl Grey atop it, to every side street, all the buildings are ornate, tall, highly decorated Victorian grandees. Newcastle Australia might have one or two, but nothing like this.

      St Nicholas' Cathedral has THE most amazing tower I have ever seen on a cathedral. It is like somehting out of Tolkien, and it did used to burn beacons in times past.

      Newcastle Castle, from which the fair city gets its name, is intact and in good repair. We had a wonderful couple of hours walking around its labyrinthine structures, up so many flights of spiral staircases, its keep has a grand hall, an entrance hall, a chapel, royal rooms, and military placements.

      After our castle morning, we decided we would walk across High Level Bridge one way and back over the river on the Tyne Bridge. For some reason now, I tend to get mild vertigo at heights, and once again, I found my legs feeling a bit weak crossing the first bridge and just wanting to get to the other side. I have learned from experience - don't stop, keep going. I managed a few pics from High Level Bridge but none on the Tyne Bridge, the little cousin of the Sydney Harbour Bridge was too much for me with whoooshing traffic on one side and the water and drop the other.

      We both did a small spot of shopping, Chris got some graphic novels and I bought some Chopin Ballades in a large traditional music shop, the like of which we don't seem to have anymore at home. A nice memory for me. We've eaten out most days, and finished up tonight at a Quayside Restaurant overlooking the Tyne.

      Newcastle has been a working class town. You can see it in some of its history. It has a really good feel to it. Chris and I both feel safe here. Relaxing in a very comfortable loft, itself in a gorgeous old Victorian building with lions adorning our windows, this has been a good place to decompress.      Read more

    • Chris in the UK
      1
      Day 18

      Driving to Newcastle via Harrogate

      September 13, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

      We had every intention of going to Durham, honestly. I had heard that Durham Cathedral was incomparable, and that other people had laid down happy memories there. I was going off scant mythologies and second-hand memories in this part of the world.

      But by the time we had packed up the car and executed the diamond-heist-difficulty check out procedure (which involved a complicated and precise series of key turns, fob swipes, code types, and corridor walks), I was ready for a coffee before we had even left York.

      I saw the name Harrogate and on pure instinct asked if we could go there. And on pure instinct, Stuart said yes, never mind the fact that English people drive dangerously and were nearly causing a collision every minute. It's not good enough, Britain, to tailgate, change lanes without leaving a crash avoidance space, speed into oncoming traffic, enter intersections without checking them... I can say with the pompous certitude of a learner driver that English drivers do not drive to an Australian motoring standard.

      Driving into Harrogate was unexpectedly congested. We soon found out why: the place is amazing, and perfect for tourism. It felt like a different kind of tourism to Nottingham's Robin Hoodery or York's Renaissance Fun-fayre. This was more like the Blue Mountains back home: a traditional spa resort with maximalist luxury architecture, still luring in a certain older and parochial traveller looking for a nice and pretty place that sells expensive things. To call it picturesque is an understatement: its neat beauty and extravagant proportions were everything.

      My foot was bung so I was limping around a bit, but I couldn't stop. There was just too much to see: around every corner, more cobblestones, more columns, more fancy windows, more hanging flower baskets. We took our time walking around, photographing Dahlias, buildings, and ourselves.

      The drive into Newcastle was unexpected. Everything was so agrarian until it wasn't. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne doesn't sprawl the way Newcastle-Ever-Mine does. And once we had passed the city threshold, suddenly all the buildings were crammed into a tight perimeter, reaching up high. The buildings are all large, but they are squished together on steep ravines. In fact, this is the most vertical city I've ever seen. (I haven't been to Santiago or Hong Kong, but I've been to Dunedin and San Francisco). It's practically Gotham City with its art deco, its caricatured proportions, its achingly nostalgic vistas.

      And with that architectural verticality, that other kind of verticality: massive class differences between the rich and poor. There are beggars here smoking underneath castle archways, and people in Prada suits walking past them with Waitrose bags full of organic provender. It makes the place hard to read. I am so excited I can't even deal with it - I want to walk everywhere around here, as long as my foot will let me.

      I saw an albatross, an eagle, a grey squirrel, and a cranky dachshund today. The dachshund was barking at a busker performing Asturias in Harrogate. I wasn't sure if they were a double act, you know, good cop/bad cop that sort of thing. I thought about it as I walked out of Waitrose with my bag of organic provender.      Read more

    • Costa Fortuna - Nordatlantik
      Day 10

      Newcastle upon Tyne

      September 5, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

      Newcastle liegt am Tyne, der mitten durch die Stadt führt. Es gibt einige mehr oder wenige interessante Brücken, die die Stadtteile miteinander verbinden. Einige interessante Gebäude gibt es ebenfalls zu sehen, aber mehr eigentlich nicht. Der Hafen am Anlageplatz verspricht mehr,als er halten kann. Da muss ich nicht wieder hin.Read more

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    • TravelerHadrian's Wall
      1
      Day 1

      Introduction

      September 17, 2021 in England ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

      Hadrian's Wall was built to reflect the northern extremity of the Roman Empire and not the boundary between Scotland and England, as many people think. Construction of the wall started in AD122 and was completed in AD128 under the stewardship of Emperor Hadrian; it is 73 miles long and runs from Wallsend in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear to Bowness-on-Solway, Cumbria and acted as both a military fortification and to control trade and immigration across its boundary; 16 forts and various towns were on its route and there were turrets every Roman mile (milecastles). The Romans also constructed a Military Road immediately south of the wall for troop movements etc. Hadrian's Wall formed the North West frontier of the Roman Empire until AD410, when serious invasions started from the North by the Picts.

      Much of the wall has been lost due its use for construction etc over the centuries; it is either simply not there or its route indicated by dry stone walling. Portions of it do remain, however, as do many Roman artefacts; this is thanks largely due to the efforts of John Clayton, a Victorian.

      It is possible to walk the course of the route that Hadrian's Wall took via an 84 mile long footpath There is also a road, the B6318, that runs along some of, and in parts parallel to, the old Military Road (with the footpath criss-crossing it). We take the road option, turning off close to West Denton close to where Milecastle 8 was situated, and plan to visit some of the main sites en route . We will be based at Haltwhistle; there is no time to explore the town though.      Read more

    • Minikreuzfahrt 2
      2
      Day 2

      Millenium Bridge New Castle

      September 6, 2018 in England ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

      Von der Castle sind wir runter ans Ufer des Tyne gelaufen. Der Fluss ist bekannt für seine vielen Brücken, unter anderem der Millenium Bridge. Wir konnten sogar sehen wie sie sich erhob, damit ein Schiff drunter herfahren konnte.Read more

    You might also know this place by the following names:

    Newcastle upon Tyne, NET, نيوكاسل أبون تاين, Newcastle, Nyukasl apon Tayn, Горад Ньюкасл-апан-Тайн, Нюкасъл ъпон Тайн, নিউক্যাসল আপন ট্যাইন, نیوکاسڵ, Νιούκασλ, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, نیوکاسل آپون تاین, An Caisteal Nuadh, ניוקאסל, ニューカッスル・アポン・タイン, ნიუკასლ-აპონ-ტაინი, 뉴캐슬어폰타인, Novum Castellum, Niukaslas prie Taino, Ņūkāsla pie Tainas, Ньюкасл, न्यूकॅसल अपॉन टाईन, نیوکاسل, Neuchâté, Ньюкасл-апон-Тайн, Њукасл на Тајну, டைன் ஆற்றங்கரை நியூ காசில், นิวคาสเซิลอะพอนไทน์, Newcastle trên sông Tyne, ניוקאסטל, 紐卡素, 泰恩河畔纽卡斯尔

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