This week we spent three days in the north east of England, catching up with family and friends. It's been a couple of years since I have been back on home ground and walking around the city where I used to work it felt strange to see how much had changed in my absence and was (to my mind at least) a relatively short space of time.
Our base for the visit was the
Copthorne Hotel on the Quayside. With all of the visits we had scheduled we didn't really get time to stray very far from the Quayside itself. Newcastle was also one of the host city's for the Rugby World Cup which was why we had to go midweek, as the cheapest hotel we could find on a weekend was £300 per night! due to matches being played.
I took the pictures with a combination of my trusty Olympus and my iPhone. In fact, the pictures that I like best (the Sage at night and the black and white shot of the Millennium Bridge) were taken with the iPhone.
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| The High Level Bridge |
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| The setting sun on the Tyne Bridges |
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| The Millennium Bridge from The Baltic |
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| The view from the Millennium Bridge |
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| Bridge and Baltic Arts Centre |
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| The Sage Concert Venue |
The Baltic or to give it it's full name, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art is an amazing building on the Gateshead Quays that used to be a flour mill.
I do enjoy contemporary art, when it is done well. This visit disappointed Terry and myself due to what we perceived to be weak exhibitions. There was however one show stopper of a moment. Take the lift to the fourth floor and walk around the obscured entrance to the gallery and you are greeted by this.
It's not what you expect to see 4 floors up. The 17 tonne truck is part of a exhibition by
Fiona Tan. We spent most of our time wondering how they got the truck up on the fourth floor.
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| The Sage at night |
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| Runners training outside our hotel window |
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Sunset from the Quayside
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