Holiday Part III: Newcastle - Durham

Day 8:

We escape Edinburgh and make our way to our Major Destination – London, but before that, we decided to stop over at Newcastle to make a little detour to Durham.

It is Cui’s belief that every backpacker on their maiden journey should take a photo like that – to prove that they were indeed backpacking, to look back and remember that they were once young and silly adventurous, so that others can look at the photo and imagine them with a beer-belly (predominantly for the males) or pregnant (females, obviously). Whatever…

Interesting sculpture along the street…

Further evidence that we were REALLY in Newcastle...

Why, oh, why do we have people running in the background?!


Nice architecture in Newcastle!

And ahem, because it’s Newcastle that we were at, right… Newcastle. Let me repeat so that the implications for all the football mad people out there sink in. Newcastle. I was bestowed some classic one-liners:

1) We’re breathing in the same air as him, you know?

2) I’m going to look into every car as they drive pass, it might be him inside!

3) I’m actually at the train station where he takes the train!

One nice request later (favour = must be nice), I loaned my camera to her… The result?

*exasperated shrug*

After a construction crane came and finally lifted us out of Newcastle, we arrived in Durham to meet up with CJ (to refresh your memory of who he is, click here) who had agreed (after threats of violence) to put us up for a night. We had a pleasant Italian (on hindsight, Italian…haha) dinner. Matthew (who I will introduce later on) was supposed to join us but was not informed of the “gathering”. Because the arrangements were left to CJ. Naturally.

But I won’t go on about the multitude of ways that CJ failed us because he gave up his bed and spent a sleepless night in the lounge downstairs, keeping busy by studying and shivering.

Day 9:

Had breakfast and went for a long walk at the Cathedral. I saw loads more compared to the first time I was there…

A group photo later, we depart for London!

Thanx CJ! :)

On the train to London…