North Gosforth

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Avoiding the heat EU tour
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- Dec 5, 2023, 11:02pm
- ⛅ 0 °C
- Altitude: 72 m
- England Northumberland Wideopen 55.035693, -1.62098455°2’8” N 1°37’16” W
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Fish 'n castles
December 5, 2023 in England ⋅ ⛅ 0 °C
Today we left early and set off to Bamburgh Castle. This 11th century castle was a former Royal Palace, Norman stronghold, crown residence, and has now been recreated by the engineer William Armstrong (who helped design and build Spitfires).

The castle spans across 9 acres of land and was absolutely stunning, we took our time exploring the staterooms, armoury, dungeon as well as the aviation museum on the grounds.

After too much time at the castle we decided to drive to the next town over, Seahouses. Where we enjoyed our first UK fish and chips by the beach. Between us we had Haddock and chips, battered spam, a pickled egg, and a chip butty.

Once we got back to the accommodation we spent the night booking our next few stays, and we realised we only have under a week of accommodation not booked! Which means our trip is so close to coming to an end 😭

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Traveler Was hanging out for this photo, how was the spam, would surely have needed sauce
12/5/23Reply
Traveler Spam fritter was 10/10, we did have some ketchup to coat it in!
12/6/23Reply
Traveler Glad you did the butties, good to squeeze in all cultural differences
12/5/23Reply
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- Dec 3, 2023, 10:30pm
- ☁️ -1 °C
- Altitude: 79 m
- England Northumberland Wideopen 55.034858, -1.62209455°2’5” N 1°37’20” W
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Day 91
Alnwick Beef Wellington
December 3, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ -1 °C
After our buffet breakfast we scrapped off the snow from Bartholomew || and headed to The Alnwick Garden. The gardens had an expansive network of formal gardens with a cascading central fountain - all if which was covered in snow. But the main reason for the visit was the Poison Garden!

Though small, UK's deadliest Garden is filled exclusively with around 100 toxic, intoxicating, and narcotic plants. The boundaries of the Poison Garden are kept behind black iron gates, only open on guided tours where we learnt about different plants and the effects they have on humans.

We then frolicked in the snow and made a snowman named Ralph.

As we left we decided to detour and check out Edlingham Castle, 14th-century riverside ruins of a fortified manor house. This was STUNNING we had the ruins to ourselves, and they were covered in snow. After climbing places that told us not to and a few more snowball fights we headed to Greggs to pick up another mystery bag!

The bag was again full of goodies and more than enough for dinner. A bargain for the £3.5 we paid for it!

The night ended with us getting our steps up by walking around the hotel for a while, and then watching Gordon Ramsay yell at poor restaurant owners.

We are sad as the weather forecast is for rain for the next week, as opposed to snow. So today will likely be the end of our winter wonderland for at least a little while.

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Traveler Great shot, loving the snow, but for me, bit of a spectator sport, I like snow, when I'm watching it through the window
12/3/23Reply
Traveler He's almost pocket sized
12/3/23Reply
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Avoiding the heat EU tour
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- Dec 4, 2023, 11:21pm
- 🌧 6 °C
- Altitude: 68 m
- England Northumberland Wideopen 55.035732, -1.62107455°2’9” N 1°37’16” W
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Day 92
New old castle
December 4, 2023 in England ⋅ 🌧 6 °C
This morning started in the most devastating way possible, we opened the curtains to see all of our beautiful snow gone and replaced by rain. We consoled ourselves with a hot drink in bed, and then braved the rain to get to the car so that we could head into the centre of Newcastle.

While there we sent some more of our less used clothes back to Aus to regain some space in our backpacks.

A short walk away was the aptly named Newcastle castle. An old castle from 1177 which was built by Henry II. Originally there was an older motte and bailey style castle. But it was demolished to build the new castle!

Unfortunately we didn't have the time to explore the inside of the castle, so we had to make do with walking around the outside of it. It was impressively tall, and had a cool fortified gatehouse nearby called the Black Gate. Good stuff!

We were then in need of a coffee, so we did the unthinkable and stopped at Gregg's and paid full price for some coffees! Fortunately they were nice and didn't let us down. We'll continue shopping there in the future.

After this we fought pass all the people to get back to the car and made our way to our dinner date with Ros, Mark and of course Bailey! We had a great time, it was lovely to be able to sit and chat and even better because there was a delicious dinner involved!!

Eventually the night wrapped up and we braved the elements one last time to get back to the hotel, where we ended the night getting a few more steps in before going to bed.

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Traveler Looks cozy, hope you didn't need an interpreter
12/4/23Reply
Traveler Bailey pretending to be starving!!
12/4/23Reply
Traveler It was sooo wonderful to meet Bec and see you again Phill. Glad you enjoyed your ‘Toad in the hole’ and Sticky Toffee pudding. Bailey is very tired now zzzzzzzz
12/4/23Reply
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Travelling Around Newcastle upon Tyne
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- May 27, 2016, 1:32pm
- ⛅ 12 °C
- Altitude: 65 m
- England Northumberland Wideopen 55.03534, -1.6113755°2’7” N 1°36’41” W
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Newcastle Racecourse
May 27, 2016 in England ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Horses and jockeys.

Newcastle Racecourse is a horse racing course located at Gosforth Park near Newcastle upon Tyne, England, owned by Arena Racing Company. It stages both flat and National Hunt racing, with its biggest meeting being the Northumberland Plate held annually in June.Read more
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Travelling Around Newcastle upon Tyne
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- May 27, 2016, 12:08pm
- ⛅ 11 °C
- Altitude: 71 m
- England Northumberland Wideopen 55.03585, -1.6218355°2’9” N 1°37’19” W
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne
May 27, 2016 in England ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Arrived at 10 am. Off the ship went very quick. Left driving still works. Didn't forget that. From the ship to the hotel just 9 miles
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