Newcastle - pubs, clubs, things to do and general chat
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neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Quite a lot to do, how long are you up for?Yep, I'm heading there by train. I have First Class tickets booked!
That looks very nice. I'll have to check it out. So many pubs to choose from!
Yes, I'm planning on seeing the Grey Street area. I drew up a list of things I want to see a while ago.
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Whether I'll have time for everything I'm not sure.
If you need to cut down I'd favour the Discovery over the Hancock (Great North Museum) and Vindolanda over Segedunum.
4 nights.
Well I just went through the attractions in the area and made a list of those that appealed to me. I may have to drop a few things, but never mind. I'll bear what you said in mind.
Vindolanda is part of a big day trip I have planned to see that, Hadrian's Wall and Houseteads Fort. I have the "Walking Hadrian's Wall Country" book, which has a 7.5 mile walk which covers that area. I'm planning on taking my walking boots.
Well I just went through the attractions in the area and made a list of those that appealed to me. I may have to drop a few things, but never mind. I'll bear what you said in mind.
Vindolanda is part of a big day trip I have planned to see that, Hadrian's Wall and Houseteads Fort. I have the "Walking Hadrian's Wall Country" book, which has a 7.5 mile walk which covers that area. I'm planning on taking my walking boots.
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Tynemouth is fine. The south side of the Metro "loop" (including Wallsend) has the potential to be a bit dubious, but should be ok during the day, just don't wear a coat or spill anyone's pint
BTW if you are interested in industrial type stuff then what was the main Swan Hunter ship yard is just around the corner from Segedunum, although I'm not sure if there is much left to see now.
BTW if you are interested in industrial type stuff then what was the main Swan Hunter ship yard is just around the corner from Segedunum, although I'm not sure if there is much left to see now.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
Have fun. I really like Newcastle. We went to a couple of museums, the military one in a park somewhere and a few other places but it was years ago now. No experience of the pubs as we had son with us 
free spirit
more tea vicar?
exhibition park, up past the university, and erm the other museum up there near the play house, also next to the town moor.Have fun. I really like Newcastle. We went to a couple of museums, the military one in a park somewhere and a few other places but it was years ago now. No experience of the pubs as we had son with us
not-bono-ever
meh
Freddie Shepherd- ex Chairman of Newcastle - has bought the Exhibition park museum now - it used to have Turbinina in it- the Parsons built first turbine ship.
Vindolanda is great , proper windswept and bleak. Segundum is in Wallsend and not too much to lookat sadly.
The centre has the best georgian architecture around, though much of the city centre is now occupied by the usual chain shops.
Heavy drninking on the Quayside & the Bigg market - lots of students though- they can be arseholes
Vindolanda is great , proper windswept and bleak. Segundum is in Wallsend and not too much to lookat sadly.
The centre has the best georgian architecture around, though much of the city centre is now occupied by the usual chain shops.
Heavy drninking on the Quayside & the Bigg market - lots of students though- they can be arseholes
I intend to go straight from the station to Segundum and straight back again.Tynemouth is fine. The south side of the Metro "loop" (including Wallsend) has the potential to be a bit dubious, but should be ok during the day, just don't wear a coat or spill anyone's pint
Yeah, I noticed that on the map. Interesting.
Is that all week, or just at the weekends? Someone, elsewhere, told me to avoid Bigg Market.
not-bono-ever
meh
fridays and saturdays. they used to have place that allowed women to drink free IIRC - carnage - didnt last long.
the Bigg market isnt too bad really, a bit down at heels these days as the quayside took off - if you want to get leathered cheaply and dance to 80's music, its a winner
the Bigg market isnt too bad really, a bit down at heels these days as the quayside took off - if you want to get leathered cheaply and dance to 80's music, its a winner
not-bono-ever
meh
Go down to tynemouth - walk to the end of the pier, have fish n chips, a few pints of Exhibition, go the the old priory on the cliff top, avoid the turds in the sea at King Edwards bay.Dont confess to supporting Sunderland at any point though- men, women, girls and babes in arms will assail you on the street.Jesmond is another drinking area, maybe a mile out of the toon itself, but seems to be full of footballers on the lash these days. There are bars that are more alternative / traditionnal around the Station area - like the Forth Inn - http://www.theforthnewcastle.co.uk/ - not full of trendy club wankers but still a decent bar. You can walk around the centre in an hour or two,see the old city walls, its pretty compact as city centres go and propabaly the best way to get a feel for the place
I couldnt live back there but it is certianly unique, neither fully England nor Scotland in many ways and sufficiently isolated to retain characheristics that make it interesting. For Lundun dwellers, the space of the place can be interesting - land was cheap, so it has spread out alot with recent development , though I assume you will be mostly in the city centre.
The train to carlisle is a nice ride if you are going out the Wall - it meanders along the Tyne to Carlisle and is slow and picturesque.Temps will likely be 8 decgrees or so colder, so make sure you are well insulated if you are out of the wall.
good luck
ETA, there is ( was ) a bagpipe museum in the castle near the station!
I couldnt live back there but it is certianly unique, neither fully England nor Scotland in many ways and sufficiently isolated to retain characheristics that make it interesting. For Lundun dwellers, the space of the place can be interesting - land was cheap, so it has spread out alot with recent development , though I assume you will be mostly in the city centre.
The train to carlisle is a nice ride if you are going out the Wall - it meanders along the Tyne to Carlisle and is slow and picturesque.Temps will likely be 8 decgrees or so colder, so make sure you are well insulated if you are out of the wall.
good luck
ETA, there is ( was ) a bagpipe museum in the castle near the station!
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
These might be of interest:
http://www.theheadofsteam.co.uk/newcastle-outlets-tilleys-bar-location-and-about-u/
http://www.theheadofsteam.co.uk/gateshead/
http://www.thecumberlandarms.co.uk/
http://www.sjf.co.uk/foodpubs/about.php?id=20
http://www.sjf.co.uk/pubsandbars/about.php?id=21
http://www.sjf.co.uk/pubsandbars/about.php?id=5
not-bono-ever
meh
^^^^ these
or for the more jaundiced reader, the sadly defunkt Burgulars dog site
http://www.theburglarsdog.co.uk/
or for the more jaundiced reader, the sadly defunkt Burgulars dog site
http://www.theburglarsdog.co.uk/
I was going to take the train out (to Bardon Mill), but (I'm doing a walk in the area) that would mean a ~40 minute walk there and back to get to somewhere on the walk and doing it backwards to avoid getting to the pub, where I aim to take sustenance, too early (like right at the beginning). I was going to combine the train and the early AD122 bus (which doesn't start as far east as Newcastle then), and then catch the bus all the way back...or I might have to catch it the other way to Haltwhiste and then catch the train from there back from there if I miss the last direct bus.
Thanks.
I'm there now. The room is a train spotter's wet dream. I have a direct view onto one end of the station and can see all the trains as they come in and out.
Newcastle isn't like I thought it would be. I thought everyone here would be a Geordie and I'd be the odd one out, but I took a walk around, along the quayside, and across the Millenium Bridge and came across plenty of people who seemed to be from elsewhere: people who sounded like they were non-locals, Japenese tourists, people with cameras etc.
I did (part of) Hadrian's Wall today. I got a bit scuppered at the start. I saw the steps going up Steel Rigg and i didn't like the look of them at all. I don't like heights and I couldnt see myself going up them without problems, especially having to contend with other people coming down too. Are they as precipitous as they look from the road?
I decided to take the path along the base of the escarpment and join the HW path further along. That did give me great views of it though.
I visited Vindolanda and Housesteads along the way, and made use of the very useful AD122 bus. Had dinner in the covieniently place Twice Brewed pub too.
Newcastle isn't like I thought it would be. I thought everyone here would be a Geordie and I'd be the odd one out, but I took a walk around, along the quayside, and across the Millenium Bridge and came across plenty of people who seemed to be from elsewhere: people who sounded like they were non-locals, Japenese tourists, people with cameras etc.
I did (part of) Hadrian's Wall today. I got a bit scuppered at the start. I saw the steps going up Steel Rigg and i didn't like the look of them at all. I don't like heights and I couldnt see myself going up them without problems, especially having to contend with other people coming down too. Are they as precipitous as they look from the road?
I decided to take the path along the base of the escarpment and join the HW path further along. That did give me great views of it though.
I visited Vindolanda and Housesteads along the way, and made use of the very useful AD122 bus. Had dinner in the covieniently place Twice Brewed pub too.
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
The city centre has changed a lot in the past few years, it's a lot less like the old Geordie stereotype these days. Whether that's a good or bad thing, I don't know
I've never actually been along Steel Rigg despite my other half's parents only living a few miles north of there, but I know from other places along there that it can be a bit much when it's full of tourists.
I've never actually been along Steel Rigg despite my other half's parents only living a few miles north of there, but I know from other places along there that it can be a bit much when it's full of tourists.
I went in the Forth Hotel this evening. I was but dubious when I turned intoI to the street it's in (it looked a bit rough), but it turned out to be a lovely pub - I might go back there again tomorrow - and just a few steps from the station, and therefore my hotel.
Went to the Baltic today. It was a bit disappointing tbh, especially compared to Tate Modern (in which I could, and have, spend several hours in). There were literally just 2 exhibits to see, and one being installed that you could view from a balcony. The lot could have barely filled one wing of one floor at the Tate. Disappointing for such a large building.
I did enjoy the view from the viewing gallery. I waited to see the bridge open. It was supposed to happen at 4.05. Come that time, and nothing. I waited and waited, and still nothing, so I went downstairs.
Oh, and I found the way they refer to their staff as a "crew" a bit irritating tbh. They're an art gallery not a ship. It's an awful Americanism; something I also noticed elsewhere.
I did enjoy the view from the viewing gallery. I waited to see the bridge open. It was supposed to happen at 4.05. Come that time, and nothing. I waited and waited, and still nothing, so I went downstairs.
Oh, and I found the way they refer to their staff as a "crew" a bit irritating tbh. They're an art gallery not a ship. It's an awful Americanism; something I also noticed elsewhere.
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
The Baltic can be a bit hit and miss, sometimes they have quite a few things on, sometimes not. Did you have a look in the Sage?
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Yeah. It's quite impressive from the inside, although I probably wouldn't make a special trip just to go there.
free spirit
more tea vicar?
years ago I'd have been able to get a key to go up the monument at monument.
I can't now unfortunately, but if you have a time machine handy...
Forth used to be my regular sunday haunt, I kinda miss the place.
I can't now unfortunately, but if you have a time machine handy...
Forth used to be my regular sunday haunt, I kinda miss the place.
The City Guides open it occasionally. It wouldn't be for me though, me and exposed heights don't mix.
http://newcastlecityguides.org/guide/walks-2012/102-2/
I went on one of their general tours yesterday and it was great!
http://newcastlecityguides.org/guide/walks-2012/102-2/
I went on one of their general tours yesterday and it was great!
sunnysidedown
caput mortuum
Start early on a Friday afternoon with a stroll around the Grainger Market followed by a pint or two in the Black Garter, then head over to the Newcastle Arms off Stowell Street for a good range of ales then stroll down Stowell Street itself onto Westgate Road and head to the Bodega for a bottle of Brown ale. Head back down Westgate Road towards the river and onto the Bridge Hotel for a swift one, head right on the old winding cobbled street that takes you down to the river and pop into the Crown Posada, head back up Dean Street and onto Grey Street taking a right hand turn down High Bridge (feel free to nip into the Bacchus) onto Pilgrim Street, turn right and head into The Market Lane (Monkey Bar) for a quick one. Head up Pilgrim Street towards Northumberland Street and nip into the Tyneside Cinema, head upstairs for a cheeky one, continue up Pilgrim and head right onto New Bridge Street turning left passed the Library and downstairs into Trillians for a cider & black, head back down New Bridge towards the Monument and get yourself into Greggs for a couple of Steak Bakes.
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