I was up quite late last night doing research for my up coming day trip to Newcastle (tacked onto a conference I'm attending up there). So I travel up Tuesday for the start of the conference, then stay overnight at the Hilton, then stay the following night (on my own budget) at the YHA.

So, I've a day, Thursday to look at the city. Well, not one to slack about town, I've planned a day of activities (in OmniOutliner, of course!):

▼ Tuesday Evening
• Millennium and Tyne Bridges
▼ Wednesday Night
• Performance at the The Sage Gatehead
▼ Thursday Morning
• Segedenum + Hadrian's Wall
• Laing Gallery
▼ Thursday Afternoon
• Grainger Town and Arcades
• Grey Street
• Castle Keep Museum via St. Nicholas Cathedral
• Baltic and Bridges
• Quayside Art, Bridges and Cafes

I'm quite pleased to have found Segedenum, it should add something different to the trip.

I just finished watching the excellent Equator on BBC 2. It's presented by Simon Reeve, who is great on screen, one of those people who has a permanent smile, even when grimacing. I just found his web site and he's more than just a pretty face, he was the first to write a book about Al Quaeda and he wrote One day in September, which was made into a film - a prequel of sorts to the stunning Munich. Check him out (and his Rapid Weaver designed site - sad that I can tell, I know).

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