Newcastle upon Tyne; Friday, 25 September, 2015

I’d booked a half day of work, so after a quick journey up into town my second train of the day was the sushi train at St Pancras for lunch before I headed over to Kings Cross to pick up the train North.

I was booked on the 3pm train to Edinburgh which I thought would be a relatively quiet train as it was before the evening rush. Sadly, it looked like a lot of other people had decided to book the afternoon off as well and the train was pretty much full as it left Kings Cross

It was a generally smooth journey, although in a couple of places the train ground to a halt so that by the time I finally got into Newcastle it was gone 6pm.

I headed over to the Metro, got a ticket and picked up the train out to the hotel.

The hotel itself wasn’t particularly close to the Metro station, so by the time I checked in it was already gone 7pm and I didn’t really fancy trekking all the way back into town, so instead I used the restaurant at the hotel for dinner and then turned in for an early night.