Today we visited the Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Art Gallery, the Science Discovery Museum, The Newcastle Castle (incorporating the Black Gate and Old Garth castle remnants) and walked through a large park that stands adjacent to the Newcastle United Football Club and stadium; St. James’ Park.
While strolling along the river we came to the Gateshead Millennium pedestrian bridge. I was excited to discover that the bridge tilts to allow river traffic through. According to a sign posted near the entrance it was due to open tonight at 1905. However, we were not able to see this happen but I’ve provided a link to a YouTube video showing a time lapse recording of the bridge in operation.
Timelapse of Gateshead Millennium Bridge
There is also a swing bridge across the river Tyne, much like the Pyrmont Bridge in Darling Harbour.
Tomorrow we depart for Cambridge. I’ve asked Christine to be responsible for handling the train tickets.
Wow, that’s impressive. I have to wonder thought why they just didn’t think to make it all a bit taller so boats could pass under without it having to ‘open’!
Looks like to fitted lots into your day. You must be easily getting your 10000 steps per day ticked off. Are you meeting nice people at the BnBs? Is the food OK? What nationalities are your other travellers? What do the locals reckon about Scotland being independent or leaving the EU?? Are they ready for Rio?
Sooo many questions……wish I was there! ARrrrrrrrr
Chris ???
PS Here’s a gift from Aus…☀️?
Thanks Chris. Your gifts are much appreciated – who doesn’t like sunshine and free grog!
It is clear, young lady, that you would have made a terrible engineer. This is a pedestrian bridge allowing foot traffic and wheeled access (bicycles, wheelchairs, prams, unicycles, penny-farthings, etc) to cross without steps or without too much of an incline to make it difficult for those using wheels. If you made the bridge a “bit taller” then the incline would increase and make it unusable for the wheely people and the walky people would need a handrail to pull themselves up the slope and to provide something to break their feeefall descent going down the other side!
We have averaged a little over 13,500 steps per day so far on our sojourn including the transit days spent in airline or railway carriage seats.
We’ve met many nice people. Edinburgh was our only AirBnB to date and while the apartment was perfect we didn’t actually get to meet Grant, our host, as the keys were secreted for our arrival and we left them on the table when we left and in between – we just had each other. 🙂
As to the local politics… I’m not sure I want to pursue this line of enquiry without a few drinks to align my logic. If the opportunity arises during our stay at Cambridge and Oxford, I’ll ask one of the bright young students there for their opinion and hope I don’t get a student of political science.
greg x