Valentine's Day

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For Valentine's day, we decided to take a recommendation from one of our friends here in Newcastle and experience the Curry Train. Because of it's popularity, we made our reservations almost 2 1/2 months prior. The experience included arriving at Newcastle Central Station to be greeted by hosts from The Valley restaurant. They were kind to show us to our train, seat us, and take a prompt wine order for the 45 minute train ride to the town of Corbridge. We paid a set price that included our train ticket and 4 course meal. The nice thing about it all is that the train takes you directly to the platform of the restaurant. Even though the restaurant is right next to the tracks, it is an amazingly quiet and romatic dining experience. While on the train ride, the staff also took our meal orders and called them into the restaurant to have our starters ready for when we arrived. The experience as a whole was absolutely fabulous and we would highly recommend this to all. Mark was very skeptical due to the fact that he is not much of a curry person. However, he has been begging to go back! The food was exquisite. When we were through with our meal, we went outside and waiting only about ten minutes for the next train to take us back to Central Station.

Here is the website for those looking for recommendations while staying in or around Newcastle.

http://www.valleyrestaurants.co.uk/

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Photos

Us on the Curry Train
We are heading to The Valley in Corbride to our wonderful Valentine's meal.

Pre-dinner drinks
Wonderful set up of our menu, red wine, and a plastic cup.
Made Kaitlyn think back to the day she knew Mark was the one with the "English-elegant" Italian dinner in London.

Mark
Mark enjoyed sipping his red wine and his wonderful meal of:
Starter- Fillet shrimp
Main- Bbq shrimp medley

Kaitlyn
Kaitlyn enjoyed sipping her red wine and her wonderful meal of:
Starter: Stuffed pepper with spicy shrimp
(Definite must!)
Main- Extravaganza

Mark and the penguin
Our dessert of rich vanilla ice cream was served to us via a penguin. We had some fun with this.

Kaitlyn and the penguin
Kaitlyn showed her love to the penguin.

Just us
This was a fabulous Valentine's day.

Kaitlyn and the restaurant
Here is Kaitlyn standing outside the restaurant waiting for the train.

Comments

[Gary Moody]

So romantic
You and Mark look very happy in these photos. Sounds like a wonderful romantic Valentines Day. I hope Mark didn't get too jealous of the penguin?!$%^ Uncle Gary