When we got to Newcastle we stayed in a hotel near the Newcastle United Football Club Stadium. A lot of development work is going on in the area and mos of it seems to be large apartment buildings as student accommodation. Here are a couple of pictures taken from our hotel window:
Here is a picture of our hotel - well not really, this is a gateway in the old town wall not far from our hotel. The town wall protected the city for quite a long time:
We walked across the Millenium Bridge and then stayed to watch it open. They open it to let boats pass underneath at certain times of day.
This is a sculpture made from blacksmith type detritus which is down on the river bank not far from the Millenium Bridge.
