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April

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Newcastle Quayside walk Sat 2 Jun 18
« on: 18:28:23, 05/06/18 »
We went to Newcastle for a family birthday lunch on Saturday. We walked along the Quayside before we went to the restaurant.

Tyne Bridge from the Quayside


Millennium Bridge


The Sage


The Quayside Seaside


We had a giggle at this. A sandy beach area has been made , complete with deck chairs, buckets and spades

The Rules


Doesn't say anything about illegal drugs so we assumed people could come here to shoot up  ;)

Beefy and the Millenium Bridge


We walked across the Millennium Bridge to the Gateshead side, then walked back again.

The Tyne Bridges from the Millenium Bridge


We walked about 6.4km and 50m ascent. We went for the meal, very nice it was too.We had taken our wild camping gear with us, we were going to get off the bus at Low Row to go up onto fells near Tindale which is in Cumbria. The rain started as we got past Haltwhistle but the low cloud decided the matter, there would be nothing to see along with getting soaked, we gave it a miss and went home instead  :(
We had some nice wine to drown our sorrows  ;)
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Re: Newcastle Quayside walk Sat 2 Jun 18
« Reply #1 on: 18:52:23, 05/06/18 »
Great pics Ape O0
How much wine did we drink on Saturday  :o

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Re: Newcastle Quayside walk Sat 2 Jun 18
« Reply #2 on: 18:57:06, 05/06/18 »
How much wine did we drink on Saturday  :o

A bottle or two?  :D
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Re: Newcastle Quayside walk Sat 2 Jun 18
« Reply #3 on: 19:42:30, 05/06/18 »
Aye, nice pics of the Northern outpost  O0 ;D
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Re: Newcastle Quayside walk Sat 2 Jun 18
« Reply #4 on: 21:08:59, 05/06/18 »
A bottle or two?  :D
Yeah EACH!!!  :o

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Re: Newcastle Quayside walk Sat 2 Jun 18
« Reply #5 on: 21:18:37, 05/06/18 »
Northern outpost 

Cultural Capital , I think you mean  :)

Yeah EACH!!!  :o

Well I can't remember drinking that much  ::)  :-X
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Re: Newcastle Quayside walk Sat 2 Jun 18
« Reply #6 on: 21:34:49, 05/06/18 »
Culture capital..............wi all that modern stuff in the baltic?  ;D
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Re: Newcastle Quayside walk Sat 2 Jun 18
« Reply #7 on: 23:11:47, 05/06/18 »
Like the Quayside Seaside   :)   There's more sand than on the beach down here in Brighton!

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Re: Newcastle Quayside walk Sat 2 Jun 18
« Reply #8 on: 23:32:35, 05/06/18 »
Like the Quayside Seaside   :)   There's more sand than on the beach down here in Brighton!
Methinks a trip to Specsavers is called for.

Give them southern Geordies a bit of leeway. They have certainly made a great little city, despite T. Dan and Poulson and Thatcher.
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Re: Newcastle Quayside walk Sat 2 Jun 18
« Reply #9 on: 00:21:26, 06/06/18 »
Methinks a trip to Specsavers is called for.
Brighton has a shingle beach and it's only when the tide is a long way out that there are a few patches of sand


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Re: Newcastle Quayside walk Sat 2 Jun 18
« Reply #10 on: 00:54:19, 06/06/18 »
Brighton has a shingle beach and it's only when the tide is a long way out that there are a few patches of sand
Oops, sorry Dove girl.
Of course if it is golden sugary sand you want then Northumberland (to the north of Newcastle ) has mile after mile  of it. My favourite is the Sugar Sands, followed by Embleton Beach.
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Re: Newcastle Quayside walk Sat 2 Jun 18
« Reply #11 on: 06:29:20, 06/06/18 »
Oops, sorry Dove girl.
Of course if it is holden sugary sand you want then Northumberland (to the north of Newcastle ) has mile after mile  of it. My favourite is the Sugar Sands, for owed by Embleton Beach.
O0   I'd love to walk the Northumberland coast. I gather it's very beautiful    :)

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Re: Newcastle Quayside walk Sat 2 Jun 18
« Reply #12 on: 17:05:58, 06/06/18 »
Culture capital..............wi all that modern stuff in the baltic?  ;D

 ;D I have never been in, I am not a fan of modern art  ;)

Like the Quayside Seaside   :)   

It had a bit of a boat at one end too  :)

Give them southern Geordies a bit of leeway. They have certainly made a great little city

We (people from Newcastle) like to think of ourselves as proper, bona fide Geordies, not southern  ;D

if it is golden sugary sand you want then Northumberland has mile after mile  of it.

I'd love to walk the Northumberland coast. I gather it's very beautiful    :)

Indeed, the Northumberland Coast is wonderful. Growing up, we went for days out to Whitley Bay, Cullercoats, Tynemouth, Amble, Seahouses, Bamburgh, Beadnell - it is a lovely area... but don't tell everyone  ;)
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Re: Newcastle Quayside walk Sat 2 Jun 18
« Reply #13 on: 17:21:09, 06/06/18 »
April-I have been in the Baltic. Used the loo, came out again.
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Re: Newcastle Quayside walk Sat 2 Jun 18
« Reply #14 on: 20:11:19, 06/06/18 »
We (people from Newcastle) like to think of ourselves as proper, bona fide Geordies, not southern
We (people of Northumberland especially those of us from North of the Coquet) think of Geordies as Southerners.( In fact when I was growing up to be called a Geordie was seen as an insult, given the derivation of the name, my kids tell me that is no longer the case , necessarily except by us older generation.)

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Indeed, the Northumberland Coast is wonderful. Growing up, we went for days out to Whitley Bay, Cullercoats, Tynemouth, Amble, Seahouses, Bamburgh, Beadnell - it is a lovely area... but don't tell everyone  ;)
I learned to swim at the Sugar Sands ( Low steads beach???) and would walk down there most everyday of my school holidays, sometimes down the road , sometimes down through from Howick Hall Gardens down to the burn-mouth near where they discovered the site of one of the oldest inhabited places in the whole of the British Isles, it was the oldest for a couple of months I believe until they found an even older one near or in the Humber.

But you are right , we don't want too many people to know the fantastic scenery, history and cannyness of the area.
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