A day that promised to be a bit damp and chilly beckoned - a total contrast to back home where apparently it is very warm and sunny! We decided to head to the big city - Newcastle - and have a mooch around.
It's pretty easy to get to - about an hour's drive from Craster down the A1 and then park up at Kingston Park for £1 a day! Yep - £1 a day... Back home we'd be talking a £1 for a half hour, so it's a pretty good deal. The Metro station is a few yards walk from the car park (and it's all well signposted from the A1 by the way) where we bought tickets and waited for our train.
About 5 minutes later we were heading into the city. We stopped at Jesmond to have a wander round my old stomping ground from when I was a student 20 years ago (is it really 20 years!). My old flat was still there, but a few things had changed around it. There are now a lot more coffee shops on Clayton Road - and in fact - a lot more coffee shops everywhere.
We walked through the University (where I had trouble finding my old department building!) before heading into Eldon Square, out past Greys Monument and then down to the Quayside. It was nice to walk through the streets I had known as a student and show them to my family. We took the bus from the quayside back up the steep hill to the rail station and the Metro back to the car from there.
The weather wasn't great in the afternoon, so we chilled out in the cottage before a spot of dinner and over the road to the pub for a pint. The sun came out and it became quite a warm evening so we decided to head out for a walk around the village and up into the hill that overlooks Craster and the bay below. It was a lovely walk and really rather warm out of the wind.
We got back to the cottage and sat on the balcony watching the waves and the life around the harbour.
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