Newcastle
Tue, 2006-09-26 13:28
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Newcastle
I am moving to Newcastle tomorrow to do my MA.
Anyone live there? Anyone? Any people?
Or anyone know any good pubs to go to etc.
All exciting.
Span
markbrown
I'm from Newcastle!
If you mean Newcastle Upon Tyne that is.
Whereabouts you moving to?
Cheers,
Mark
Foster
Is that where they make Newcastle beer? Good stuff.
Good luck.
span
Thank you Foster.
Ah! There are real people who live there I see.
I do indeed mean Newcastle Upon Tyne. It is just for a year and then Brighton.
Did you like it Markbrown?
markbrown
Newcastle made me, for good or for ill...
Depends where you're going to be living in Newcastle span.
If you're going to be living in Scotswood, it's going to be a different thing from living in Gosforth.
My Dad still lives in the West End of Newcastle.
It's changed a bit since I last lived there.
If you would like to see the most metal place in the world, go to Trillians near the Central Library. Then the words' Pour Some Sugar On Me' will come alive for you.
Go to Boscoops on old Eldon Square for a nice sandwich and a cup of coffee is my recommendation.
if you aren't already romantically attached, you will never find anywhere so easy to become so, at least for the evening or for the taxi ride home.
Also, make sure you get on the tube and go down to the coast, for the best decaying seaside town this side of Morcambe at Whitley Bay.
You'll have a great time, I promise you.
If you like a year or two of debauch.
Cheers,
Mark
span
I am going to be living I believe a lot of pos folk live.
In Jesmond. It twere cheap and the house is alright,
its going to be a bit of a change after cosy Norwich.
I had a brief taster of what I think you mean about it being difficult to not become romantically attached. The amount of steet smooching I saw in one brief weekend was hilarious. Also, the majority of girls were wearing next to no clothes. And the guys seem very eager to spill their own blood.
I looked like a wierdo wearing a long sleeved T shirt and flat shoes.
I have been informed that the general wear is a puffa jacket with white bikini top and white mini skirt. However, I suspect that prejudice is a grave diservice to geordie women.
I was mightily impressed by how significantly more friendly northerners seem to be than southerners, whilst wandering around getting lost.
Cheers Mark, will check out the library and Boscoops and Whitley Bay.
Finsihed packing and I am away.
See you folk when I next get an internet connection.Happy abctaling!
Span
span
And no, debauch is bad.
Poems poems, thats why I am there.
A small amount of debauch maybe.
Span
neilmc
Never lived in Newcastle, but a great, friendly city to visit. They party hard, and never seem to feel the cold - but you might! Went to a Slimming World convention earlier this year, a fairly sedate do, as befits people who watch what they eat and drink, until it emerged that the Geordie groups had won all the awards - they rapidly got raucously pissed and started dancing around the tables.
Dr Jekyll
I went there once and ended up in the student digs of a born-again Christian who didn't believe in sex before marriage. I wasn't attracted to her at all, mind you, so that was a relief. She kept suggesting I had a look at her Bible, and there were segments of prayers stuck on the walls near her bed.
The ale, however, was grand. I think it must be that that makes everyone clad themselves so scantily.
tcook
And then to Brighton - the contrast could not be more stark.
If you say 'Cappucino, dahling' in Newcastle you'll wake up as a crowd.
If you say 'Cappucino, dahling' in Brighton you get a cappucino and a gay lover.
And yet, for debauch, I suspect that both are similiar in those levels.
maddan
I know a few people from Newcastle say very nice things about it.
The all still left to live in London mind.