We had great expectations of Newcastle - this may have been due to some remnants of “down underness” where we expect it to get hotter the further North we go and the fact that pigs only sleep on their left side...thanks Kath for the second fact!
Newcastle is located on the East coast of England, although in our time there we didn’t make it as far as the beach.
Our home for the next two days was in a former stately house that has been transformed into a maze of passages and rooms resembling a hostel.
The man at reception was exceptionally keen to show us where everything was and explain to us the rules of the hostel , this coupled with the fact we only saw 4 other people while we were there made us wonder if perhaps new guests were a bit of a novelty.
Upon setting out for the day we asked our ever helpful reception-man what was good to see in Newcastle to which he replied not a lot but the nightlife is great! However we managed to fill in our time with checking out the city centre, including the oldest arcade in Europe where there is a 3 storey music shop which had many pianos begging to be played, hunting out supermarkets as we had a kitchen to cook in finally-hooray! and watching the All Whites (without out having to get up at a ridiculous time of the morning...muhaha!)
We also discovered that Newcastle is in fact a fib as there is no new castle but instead an old one, so we had some fun poking around there for the afternoon after checking out St Nicholas church where there was a school choir practicing.
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