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Pitcher & Piano is a restaurant and bar on the Quayside of Newcastle-Gateshead. Steve took me there one Sunday for roast dinner, which was super tasty. It’s a treat, definitely. The view is spectacular.

Pitcher & Piano in Newcastle is a bar for every occasion. Located next to the award winning Millennium Bridge and opposite the Baltic Contemporary Arts Museum, our glass fronted building is within walking distance of the city centre and has its own taxi rank and bus stop.

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I’ve seen only some of Ouseburn because this is the section of Newcastle where the Seven Stories children’s book museum is.  I’ll have to see it eventually because it is also the place of Jesmonde Dene.

The Ouseburn is a river which flows through Newcastle upon Tyne into the River Tyne. The river gives its name to the Ouseburn electoral ward. 

The Ouseburn Valley was a heavily industrialised valley in the East end of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Since then the lower part of the valley has developed into a cultural oasis. The Ouseburn is a small river.

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Newcastle United is the city’s beloved soccer (“football”) team. Known for wearing the black and white jerseys, they’ve been dubbed the “Magpies”. On match day we see people on busses and in the streets with their black and white jerseys, scarfs and hats heading to and from St. James’ Park. This will, incidentally, be the home place of a handful of 2012 Olympic Summer games (yes, we ordered our tickets.) We’ve seen museum displays for the team, tons of shops with garb, and books dedicated to them. They love their soccer here.

Newcastle United Football Club (also known as The Magpies, The Toon and The Toon Army, and often abbreviated to NUFC) is a professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, and have played at their current home ground, St James’ Park, since the merger. The ground was developed into an all-seater stadium in the 1990s and now has a capacity 52,339. The club has been a member of the Premier League for all but two years of the competition’s history, the inaugural 1992–93 season and the 2009–10 season. In 2007, long term chairman and owner Freddy Shepherd sold his share in the club to Mike Ashley.

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This is my own picture of the Millennium Bridge in February. We go to visit it often and it never ceases to amaze me. I love seeing it at night, like this, when the lights change colors. It’s especially neat to see it from the bus going over the High Level Bridge. With the Sage and the Baltic in the background. It is definitely one of the most impressive structures in Newcastle-Gateshead.

The Gateshead Millennium Bridge is a pedestrian and cyclist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt_bridge”>tilt bridge spanning the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Tyne,_England”>River Tyne in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England”>England</a> between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateshead”>Gateshead‘s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateshead_Quays”>Quays</a> arts quarter on the south bank, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quayside”>Quayside</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne”>Newcastle upon Tyne on the north bank. The award-winning structure was conceived and designed by architects <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkinson_Eyre”>Wilkinson Eyre and structural engineers <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifford_(company)”>Gifford</a>. The bridge is sometimes referred to as the ‘Blinking Eye Bridge’ or the ‘Winking Eye Bridge’ due to its shape and its tilting method. In terms of height, the Gateshead Millennium Bridge is slightly shorter than the neighbouring <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyne_Bridge”>Tyne Bridge, and stands as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_Newcastle_upon_Tyne”>sixteenth tallest structure in the city.

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I visited the Laing a month or so ago and was really impressed. Again, there aren’t many museums and quality artwork to be seen in Florida, so having a chance to look at culture is quite an experience for me. I was interested in the old paintings of Newcastle-Gateshead and seeing St. Nicholas’s Cathedral in them. We also saw the John Martin exhibit as well. That was really impressive.

The Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, England is located on New Bridge Street. It was opened in 1904 and is now managed by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. The gallery holds oil paintings, watercolours and Newcastle silver.

The gallery boasts an extensive collection of paintings by John Martin, including the dramatic “The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah”, as well as important works by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Burne-Jones (“Laus Veneris”), Holman Hunt (“Isabella and the Pot of Basil”), Ben Nicholson and others. There is also an extensive collection of 18th and 19th century watercolours and drawings, including work by Turner, Cotman etc.

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