The Beach

After a week visiting friends in Taunton and Penarth, mum and dad (J&J) came up to Newcastle to visit me. I, of course, cooked up a welcome feast that we ate for days!
I showed them around the 'toon'. It's a very atractive toon, with lovely old buildings. My favourite street is Grey Street, which curves beautifully down to the Quayside from Monument. The monument is a large statue of Earl Grey, who introduced important social reform legislature, raised up on a huge column. My reveretial father nicknamed him 'The Teabag'.
One sunny(!), but cold, afternoon I decided to show J&J my local beach. After meeting at The Teabag we took the Metro (local train system, pronounced Me'ro) to Tyneside, about 25 minutes from the centre of toon. We walked down the Tyne bank towards the sea and around the headland to North Shields. It's very picturesque, but I forgot my camera!
By this stage, we were frozen stiff, so we popped into a local pub to warm up (and continue my whisky education). We set off again, intending to walk to Whitley Bay, the next beach, but found another pub with a very nice menu about halfway there. So we had British fish and chips instead. Lovely. But I am looking forward to unbattered fish!