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England Travel or England My Home?
Blog: Two Backpackers - 17 February 2012
2 Backpackers - England Travel or England My Home? Subscribe Now -> http://feeds.feedburner.com/TwoBackpackersIn this travel guest post for 2Backpackers.com, Jimmy McIntyre of Strange Lands, shares his awkward experience coming back home to Newcastle, England after traveling long term. Returning Home I sat and watched the houses pass by – familiar yet different. The people getting on and off all had faces I’m sure I once knew. The [...]
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Crown Posada Pub in Newcastle, England – Where the Walls and Windows Talk
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 12 August 2011
No visit to England is complete without a stop in a traditional English pub and in Newcastle the most famous of them all is the Crown Posada. My friend Val, who has lived in Newcastle all her life, dragged me in the front door and introduced me as a travel writer to the bartender, who immediately [...]
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Newcastle, England Was One Of the Most Pleasant Surprises of All My Travels
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 10 August 2011
I met Valerie Jamieson almost a year ago, during a visit to Chitwan National Park in southern Nepal. Serendipitously, we had booked weekend safaris at the same lodge and ended up on the same bus back to Pokhara, where she was volunteering at an orphanage and elementary school. We bonded immediately and started meeting every [...]
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Lady in Newcastle
Blog: A Lady in London - 26 July 2010
After all of my traveling through Mongolia and Beijing, it was time to bring things a bit closer to home. A few days after I returned from China, I took a day trip up north to Newcastle with some friends. Our train arrived just before lunch, and we stepped out of the station to find [...]
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Newcastle, Britain’s Most Sustainable City?
Blog: Cities for People - 23 November 2009
Newcastle has been ranked as Britain’s most Sustainable City 2009 by Forum for the Future, a UK based sustainable development organisation. Newcastle?! In the heart of the industrial North East? Home to the expression Selling Coal to Newcastle? Can it be true? I’m doubtful…let’s look at why Forum for the Future rank Newcastle first. Why Newcastle is a [...]
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