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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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Going Beyond Harry Potter: Inside the Still-Inhabited Alnwick Castle
Blog: Travelogged - 1 September 2010
Harry Potter (specifically the lure of seeing the castle that starred as Hogwarts) was enough to get us to take a detour to Alnwick Castle in Northeast England on our drive from Manchester to Edinburgh. But when we arrived we...
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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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