Blogs from Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 5

...and that's funny. **NOTE. I will be visiting Tynemouth (small coastal village with a priory from a year that is a 3-digit number) this afternoon with a girl from my course. I decided to separate the entries so people only interested in pictures don't have to drudge through all these annoying words.** Two things I did since my last post: 1. Joined a choir. 2. Survived my first week of classes. (1.) It's a student choir (including the officers and the director, I'm pretty sure), with a mix of ages, levels and International/UK students. Note that "genders" is not included on that list; we have four Tenors. I did not count the Basses but would comfortably bet that there are less than 15. Meanwhile about half the women had to get chairs from another part of ... read more

First, a bit of technical stuff. I've had two people tell me that they haven't been able to leave comments on the latest entry - they try to submit and it says "form expired." Has anyone else had that problem? I've contacted TB about the issue, and they said to tell you to keep trying and contact them again if it keeps up. So please tell me? At the risk of sounding attention-seeking, comments are the only way I have of knowing if anyone still reads this thing. Also, they kind of make my day. So if it tells you "form expired", reload the page, try again and let me know if that doesn't work. Done with that nonsense now. More Newcastle! This is the main entrance to the University. It's mostly international students right now ... read more

In continuing with the theme of exploring the highlights of England, Kristin, Jodie, Jonny and I headed out to Stratford-upon-Avon. We arrived on the Friday evening and before we even headed to our hostel, it was straight to the pub! We made a good choice. If you can picture a stereotypical quaint English country pub in a building where the wooden beams are drooping with age, then that is what we found. We had a quick couple of pints before we retired for the evening like the rest of the sleepy town. In the morning, we followed the taxi driver’s suggestion for breakfast and were well rewarded with a fantastic English breakfast before we braved the hordes of tourists. The first stop was, appropriately, Shakespeare’s birthplace. The house is still in good condition and has been ... read more

So I've started a blog, hopefully I wont sound like a pure douche during it but here goes. This is probably the most interesting thing i ever do so I'll try and keep in touch and let people who want to know what I get up to this summer. I have literally just pulled out of Newcastle Central and I this may be the most reliable internet connection I get for a while considering most of my time this summer will be spent up a mountain in Peru, (which is even more remote than up a tree in rosemount). I am absolutely buzzing about this elective as I think it has all hit me in the last hour and I have no one on the train to talk to about this. I apparently look like a ... read more

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne is a small city on the northeastern coast of England. It's home to about 280,000+ people, and its University is internationally highly regarded. Having never been there myself, I can't post any pictures of the city or the University on this page. But I can LINK you to them. Like most places in the UK, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne is home to many historic and fascinating places url=http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://lh6.ggpht.com/_dMK5Upji3lk/SWsAB_R3zpI/AAAAAAAALOo/lFbK1N7pndo/IMG_0293.JPG&imgrefurl=http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/KkAJV-8bxpzFIk66DcOeKA&usg=__x1wvFP5PAiiqQvXEP-YVUuWq--k=&h=1024&w=768&sz=157&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=ufXgORyXj1DLCM:&tbnh=141&tbnw=106&ei=DxNnTd_eLoXQgAfPsJnMCg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcastle%2Bgarth%2Bkeep%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1163%26bih%3D575%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=585&vpy=210&dur=1267&hovh=259&hovw=194... read more