Thursday, August 12, 1999
The Plan:

See Carlisle area

Reality:
Partly cloudy AM, Mostly cloudy PM
07:30 wake up
08:00 breakfast: toast, corn flakes, grapefruit juice, mixed peeled fruit: grapefruit, pineapple, mandarin orange
08:40 call a few taxis
08:50 get 1 ride to Haydon Bridge station £5.

 
09:19 train from Haydon Bridge
 
I don't know either.

10:14 train arrives Newcastle
10:32 train from Newcastle
10:45 train arrives Durham
10:50 taxi to cathedral £3



10:55 enter cathedral £2.50
11:00 climb 314 steps to tower £2
 

11:10 take lots of panoramas






11:20 meet Mum at base of tower
11:35 bus to train station £0.35 each
11:50 buy lunch: 2 packs of steak flavoured chips and a 7-up
12:36 train to Middlesbrough
13:24 arrive in Middlesbrough, it's a dump, decide there isn't time/energy to go to Whitby, so we'll return
13:53 train to Newcastle

15:07 arrive in Newcastle
15:10 walk towards supposed T.G.I.Fridays
15:40 parked taxi improves our sense of direction
16:20 still no Fridays
16:30 ask another Taxi to take us to restaurant near train station £5.20
16:45 arrive at J.C.Wetherfields
16:50 order fish and chips
16:55 receive food
17:18 pay bill £11
17:21 Newcastle station, next train at 17:27
17:28 train to Hexham
18:09 arrive in Hexham
18:10 taxi to Castle
18:20 arrive at Castle £9.70 lighter.
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