One side of Newcastle to the other

Our last night of our Walking Company holiday ended with a night near the mouth of the River Tyne. After visiting the museum we took the metro/train to the station of Tyne and then a 600m walk to our hotel. We were on the second and third floor! Breakfast was down stairs another flight and it was very cold with a cold wind coming off the water.

We returned with all our luggage to the metro and continued on the line to West Jesmond, thanking our lucky stars that the company had a weight restriction of no m ore than 15kgs. It didnt take as long to get there as we had allowed. We were able to leave our luggage and then we retired to Starbucks for a coffee.

Washing! I had spied a dry cleaners who also advertised laundry. They gave me bag, i took the medium one. For £10.95 they would wash and dry in 24 hours, a good deal seeing that we hadnt been able to any washing on the walk.

We were due to pick up a hire car at 2.30 pm, not far from our hotel. Not far so we decided to walk, Warren said it was about 3miles but being used to kms, I was thinking kilometres but no it was 3kms so 5 kms. Happy to say though that my ankles are back to normal and there wasnt a drama thank goodness.

Just got the car, a black mercedes and it started to rain! Driving an unfamilar car in an unfamilar city in the rain and just as school got out was not easy but we make it back to the hotel with only one wrong turn as instead of the road continuing on, the road went left.