After a long day of cycling, we arrived at Newcastle, for the ferry on the 17th.
Newcastle has a gritty industrial past, with coal mining, ship building, metalworking, etc. It is hard to tell how robust that economy is now.
The downtown of Newcastle has had a complete makeover, with upscale housing and eyecatching architectural wonders.
Here is a photo along the Tyne of cranes from the shipping works.
Alan cycles into Newcastle beside the "winking eyelid" pedestrian bridge to the redone art museum. The music hall glows in the sunset, like a metal catepillar.
The central streets of Newcastle have been turned into a pedestrian mall, that throngs with people, flowing around the old architectural edifices.
The DFDS ferry to Holland. We wait in the line with a few other cyclists, mostly Dutch. There are many more motorcyclists and the cars behind us.
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