So my first favourite place to visit In Newcastle is the Quayside, I absolutely love to go to the quayside there’s so many restaurants to go to and of course you have the millennium bridge which is really nice to see on a night time as it lights up and on top of that there’s The Baltic which is an art gallery and it’s just a really nice place to take photos and walk around.

 

Another place in Newcastle I love to go to is Eldon Square and Northumberland street which is a shopping centre and a high street, I go here a lot on my breaks during college or if I have an early finish, there’s loads of different shops, food shops etc and near Eldon Square there is an area called monument which has a statue called ‘Grey’s monument’ which is nice to sit at and relax by during the summer whilst your shopping.

Another place I like is kind of just a yearly thing, there’s a park in Newcastle called the Town Moore which well it’s just a land of grass but every year during the last week of June they have a funfair there which is called ‘The Hoppings‘ which I have been to quite a lot, i used to go a lot when I was younger but my parents and I stopped going as it was quite expensive and usually the weather is utter crap whilst it’s here. Literally the fair gets set up and the sky turns grey it happens every year, but I went with my cousin last year and it was really fun I did a post on it which you can find HERE If you’d like to see some pictures and to see my experience.

Another favourite of mine is St James Park which is a football stadium, I find it really cool and the fact that when I was younger I went to the football shop and I met the Newcastle manager (at the time) Kevin Keegan which I got a Newcastle Football shirt signed, also I went to a football match which was just a charity match (England vs. some other team) and I remember it well because of the fact that Sir Bobby Robson was still alive at the time and I saw him sitting on the opposite side of the stadium which was very cool unfortunately a couple of days later the news struck that he had passed away.

My final favourite in my town is based on the pure sight of the area it’s near monument and Eldon Square and it’s called Grainger Street and it’s just such a nice street, the buildings are so nice and it just looks stunning I love the look of the buildings and down the street there’s more high street shops such as Urban Outfitters and Space Nk, etc. but also there’s Grainger’s market which is massive and I’d love to get a picture of the inside you walk through and your hit with so many different smells such as spices or cooked food.

(Monument) 

(the split between the two streets)

So this is a few of my favourite places to visit in my City, What are some of your favourite places where you live?

Emma

Fashion and Beauty Haul

So Since last week  was my birthday and i had some money to spend i finally went out shopping on sunday into Eldon Square in Newcastle and bought a bunch of stuff from Primark, Lush, John Lewis, boots and Urban Outfitters and i thought i'd share what i bought. 

i first went into Primark and spent about an hour going through everything and i found this vest, which has a rose print and is actually a silk material and that was £4.

Also from Primark i bought this plain aztec pattern top which was £3.

Another top i bought was this grey t-shirt which had this pattern on in white. i admit i wasn't one hundred percent sure on it but once the tops on it's much nicer than it looks in the photo. 

The Last thing i bought from Primark was this top which is something i'd never usually go for as it's such a bright and outgoing top, i usually stick to dark coloured tops. but this top was £5

After Primark i decided to go into Urban Outfitters as they had a massive sale wich had 75% off so i ended up getting this back pack for £10 instead of something like £25-£30 maybe more i'm not one hundred percent sure on the original price. 

Also from Urban Outfitters i picked up this cream knitted jumper for £10 as well and this was originally  about £30 i think. 

I then went into Boots and for a while i've been dying to try this foundation out and in boots they have an offer on certain boujouis products where you get two for £14  and i picked those up in the colour light vanilla which is the lightest colour you can get and compared to the photo it is much lighter, but because of lighting it looks much darker.  

After i went into boots i went next door into Lush and i finally picked up the full size version of the Ultrabland Facial Cleanser, which i originally had as a sample and for 100g it was 10.95 but you can get the smaller one for around £6.

i also picked up a sample of the Imperialis moisturiser which one of the workers recommended to me for my skin and for the proper product it costs £12.95.

 i also picked up another charity pot for a pound, i mainly picked this up to help out with the charity that Lush work with. 

I finally picked up a Comforter bubble bar which was £4.50. 

And of course i had to pick up another one and it was a debate between Brightside or this one which is called Blue skies and white fluffy clouds, in the end i picked this one and this was also £4.50. 

And finally i went into john Lewis and i bought this Juice cube which is for when you're out and about you plug your phone into it and it charges it. but this one you get different connectors for it so you can use it to charge an iphone, ipad, samsung phone, anything that has a USB wire can be charged by this, as long as you have the charger and this was £25.

(this is plugged into my Macbook to charge the cube up.)

So that was everything i had bought over my shopping trip on sunday. so i hope you guys enjoyed reading it. 

Emma 

The Hoppings!!

Hey guys, so yesterday I went out to a funfair in Newcastle (uk) and each year on the last week of June this funfair always comes into town and it’s called the hoppings, it’s held in Newcastle at the town Moore and every year for as long as I can remember it’s been there. When I was little I used to go every year until the prices for the rides went up and you had to pay about £5 per a ride. Until yesterday. Yesterday was the first day it was open and my cousin asked me if I’d go with her so I decided why the hell not, I had nothing better to do and I was bored.

(not sure what ride that is but it's a bit like the one i went on just not as intense) 

So I grabbed £20 and we got a lift up. It was so fun this funfair had over 300 rides or so I had heard on the radio in the car and I was so excited to go since the last time I went was when I was 8! I’m now almost 16 so it was a good 7 years ago (I hope my maths is right.)Anyway as we walked through the gates and on to the grass I was instantly surrounded by the loud music playing from the rides, the screams, and the smell of the food (mainly the smell of doughnuts, burgers and chips.) it was incredible. At this point I was shaking with excitement and I was ready to jump on the nearest ride possible.

The first ride was incredible we decided first to head for the walzer (one of my all time favourite fun fair rides) and whilst waiting around we sat and took selfies and had the usual laugh and messing around to the music blasting through the ride, making it impossible to hear each other. This ride honestly was so fun, obviously all it is is spinning but because it was so fast it was making it hard for us to keep or heads up making us laugh. Walking off the ride it was a huge mistake going on that first as we could hardly walk straight and with the bumpy ground it had us wobbling all over the place.

We then headed further down trying to shake off the dizziness we encountered at the walzer and in search for a more extreme ride. This didn’t actually work we ended up going on a ride called the crazy mouse. This was just a typical small rollercoaster that went around the track but spun and literally chucked you at each corner you went around. It was pretty mental.

 (crazy mouse it's pretty weird but it was really funny and i'm realising a theme with these rides they all involve spinning) 

The second last ride I’m going to talk about is this ride called Tagada and this ride was basically the worst but best ride I’ve ever been on as it was funny as it spins around and it bounces (I’m rubbish at description) but you’re not strapped in you just sit on the seats and since there wasn’t many people on there you slid right across the seats and some people even fell off! I also did come off injured as it’s set in a circle there is two entrances/ exits and I was sitting near the edge of the seat, when the ride bounced my hand slipped off what I was holding onto and I slid across the seat and into the metal bars at the end of the seat injuring my shoulder which is now badly bruised and is causing me a bit of pain, but stupid us we went on again and I then got slammed into the same bars again and I hurt my thigh but it was all worth it to hang out with my cousin and have a laugh.

In the end we finished off with one final ride that had me petrified it was called atmosfear. And as the name suggest it was pretty scary, it was a bit like an eagles claw but your facing outwards instead of towards the middle, it still swings but goes upside down and hangs you there for a couple of seconds and after a minute or so on the ride the seats are released and start tilting forward and back, it was terrifying but I didn’t feel any butterflies or uneasy feelings I was pretty much numb with adrenalin and it was incredible.

Yesterday was one of the best nights I’ve had in a while and it was nice to go out with my cousin and talk and have a laugh with her since I don’t get to see her often. Despite the massive bruises all over and the back of my head still sore now I had a great night it was worth spending £15 for 6 rides it wasn’t bad. It made me so excited to be able to go back to the place where I went when I was younger after not going for years and hopefully I’ll get to go again next year as well.

Emma

Newcastle Racecourse

Hi guys, 

so today has been a weird day for me, my school isn't doing study leave so i'm stuck at school all during my exams, but on thursday is my first English Exam and i'm not going to lie i'm extremely nervous for it, but my school decided to do a two day trip to the Race Course in Newcastle (UK) and it was actually really fancy compared to how i expected to be. They had really nice lights like chandelier  type lights. we were only there for English revision but it was a pretty fancy room. Anyways we did the whole revision/ work stuff and we finally got a break. i decided i didn't just want to sit in the function room with my friends so i decided to explore a little. i decided to go out of the room and down to the sitting areas outside where you would sit to watch the race going on (stands) and the view was incredible it may not seem much but with the sun out and the heat it was nice especially since we don't get much nice weather in Britain. I decided to takes some pictures of the course and one was a panoramic photo which went better than expected especially since i couldn't see. i also may or may not have got wrong for sitting on the edge of the wooden ledge and had to go back inside.

(panoramic photo from yesterday) (edited)   

since it was only break and i had to go back in for sitting on the ledge.  i only got a few photos but once lunch came i managed to go and do a little bit more exploring and i found this private box, balcony thing which had tables on the balcony and was sheltered and this was higher up and had nicer view and that time i didn't get wrong for doing anything, but i did get locked out on the balcony by some of my classmates.

 (Another photo of the racecourse yesterday)

today i got to go back to the course for more revision and today it wasn't as nice it was dull, wet and raining and may i add it was freezing sitting in the stands, so unfortunately i didn't take anymore pictures of the place i only managed to get a few of the race course and that was it.

(Photo from today of the rain over the course)

Even though this trip was for revision it was quite fun, well when we weren't sitting doing work... i had some great fun taking some photos and exploring around the second floor. i mean this place was quite fancy and we even got some free food even though we only had the choice of sandwiches or chips. but it was actually a great two days.