Newcastle upon Tyne; Friday, 14 August, 2009

I headed out from the hotel to the station to drop off my luggage before heading down onto the Metro and out to my final Roman fort of the tip.

At the imaginatively titled Wallsend, the Wall finally meets the Tyne, and it’s final fort, Segadunum. I had a long look round both the museum and the fort site before heading back into town for some lunch.

With just a couple of hours left before I had to catch the train I took in a couple of the big free museums in the city. First off was the Great North Museum, and from there it was a quick hop on the Metro over to the Discovery museum.

I had lost track of time and only part way round the Discovery museum the tannoy went off to announce that the museum would be closing shortly, so I didn’t get to see all of it.

From the museum I wandered over to the Catholic Cathedral to have a look around, but that to had closed, in fact it appeared that all the sights in Newcastle close at five, so I headed back to the station to collect my luggage and have a bite to eat before catching my train home.