We took the train from Edinburgh, Scotland to Newcastle, it was some what difficult to figure out what we were doing, but we managed to figure things out. When we arrived in Newcastle, we really had a time of it just trying to exit the train station. The tickets we purchased told us that there would be a train change, so we thought we were supposed to change trains. Apparently, there are two train stations, the Metro and the Metro Citycenter. The station we arrived at was the correct one, but we were never told that. We finally asked the person sitting behind the information desk and she sent us to the other side of the platform, then a woman told us that we were not at the right place, we ended up going to the other end. Then, when we got there, we were told to get on a different train and go to the next stop. When we made it to that train, that’s when we found out we were where we needed to be all along!

We walked uphill for about a mile to our Newcastle hotel where we dropped our bags off and walked back down to the station again to hop on a train to Hexham, then got on a bus to Hadrian’s wall. When we got back to our hotel, we were exhausted. We were so ready for bed, but we just had to walk around Newcastle City Center for a little bit. We went into a shop that makes handmade cosmetics and purchased a few items there. Then when we could no longer walk, we headed back to our hotel room and crashed. The next morning, we hiked down the hill and made it to the station just in time.

We had fun in Newcastle, it is quite different than Scotland and it has the qualities of any big city, which offers good shopping experiences. It’s gorgeous here in Newcastle and a little bit hectic, but it’s worth a stay.

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