Newcastle, England – 7 Can’t Miss Things To Do 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Country #24/46

Before we travel back to our home in Amsterdam (coming next week), check out our day in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in the northeast of England! We found 7 things that we think make a great itinerary if you have one or two days to explore Newcastle!

From the Quayside Market to tasty Indian food, we crammed all that we could into about 24 hours as we explored Newcastle, England.

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Today we are in Newcastle in England and we are going to show you the seven best things to do in this [Music] city. Hey everyone, welcome to Newcastle, England. Nate, Katrina. Hi. Hey. If you’re new here, you know you got to do these things once in a while. We live in Amsterdam. more Americans living in Europe, traveling, trying to see all the countries. England, new country for the vlog. Yes, we’re splitting the UK up, counting it as as four. We just did our Scotland vlog. And now we are in England. Newcastle might not be what you think of when you think of an English holiday. You might be thinking of London, Brighton, Manchester, I don’t know. But we’re in Newcastle and we’re going to show you seven of our what we think are the best things to do in this city. [Applause] Do you know what you should see when you go to a town or a city called Newcastle? Probably the castle, right? The Newcastle in Newcastle. It’s still not that new. It’s like 900 years old. It was built in the late 1100s. It used to be It used to be a wooden castle, so it wasn’t very sturdy. So Henry II said, “We will need Let me guess. It burnt down.” You know, we’re going to find out if it burnt down or not. But this one is made of stone, and it’s still standing today. Let’s go see the castle in Newcastle. Let’s do it. [Music] All right, we’re in the black gate, which as far as I can tell is not black. Maybe it used to be black. I don’t know why that’s the name, but they used to defend the castle. [Music] Apparently, the black gate is named after a man named Patrick Black. That makes so much more sense. I just learned that right here. Patrick Black was the royal tor. So, he was the one that like made all the clothes and stuff for the royals back in the day. And they named that entrance after him. That was just the little museum in this black gate area. Now, we’re going to go to the actual castle. So, let’s go. We’ve been in a lot of castles on this vlog. Like we did a whole video where we went to three castles and slept in them all. This is a pretty small castle. All things console, but I do like the top cuz it looks like very castly, you know, with the lookout spots. What do we call those? There’s two types of castles. There’s this type with like the places where you can like shoot people out the top. Then there’s like the ones that have the pointy tops like spires like in like the Little Mermaid, you know, like just like pointy roofs. That’s what I think. That’s castle’s type number two. This has He-Man vibes. He-Man Castle Grey Skull and He-Man. [Music] Welcome to Nate and Katrina climb tall towers. We’re there. Says 99 steps to the top. That actually is not that [Music] [Applause] many. [Music] Think this is a great view. Um, some might say the best in Newcastle. They did say that. Do you want Do you want to go join the cosplayers? No, I appreciate that what they’re doing, but I’m going to just re reenactors. Yeah, I’m just going to observe. [Music] Allegedly, the best view is actually up here. I didn’t even see that there was an entrance down [Music] here. So, Newcastle’s actual name is Newcastle upon Tine. Tine being the river that cuts right through here. Newcastle on this side, Gate Head on the other side. Well, you can see all the bridges that are up here, too. There’s seven different bridges. Bridges might be a part of this video. It might foreshadowing. [Music] This seems small when you look at it from outside, but there’s so many different corridors that you can go through that it actually is bigger than what meets the eye from the outdoors. [Music] [Music] We’re on a little detour. We stopped in Deep North Donut Shop to come get a couple donuts. Got a glazed donut. Nate built the Homer donut. They’re artisal. They’re a little fancy. And you know, we live in the Netherlands and we can’t find good donuts. So, here we are. [Music] All right, just a simple Uber across town to the center and we’re at the Hanok Museum and there’s some craziness going on here. So, the Hanok Museum, Great North Museum. It’s free. It is free. Free. Got to go. It’s free. Oh my goodness. What on earth? [Music] I don’t know what that thing is, but it’s fun and I’m here for it. Again, it’s Easter weekend, so I wonder if it has something to do with Easter. All of that stuff. All of that stuff. All right, let’s go see the museum. Okay. [Music] Irish deer from the last ice age. Look at the antlers on that pie. Oh my god. Is that what we saw outside? I don’t think so. One of the main reasons we came to this museum is they have an actual fossil skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. And that’s just really cool. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I love dinosaurs. It’s literally right there. I know. It’s so cool. I have some news for you, Katrina. Okay. Uh, those are not real fossil bones. Well, it’s cast and the original specimen is a long ways away from here in America. In Boseman, Montana at the Museum of the Rockies. Well, maybe we’ll get there one day to see the actual T-Rex. But this is still pretty cool. It’s still cool. I actually thought that they were bigger. T-Rexes? Yeah, they probably came in various sizes. Mhm. This is a younger one. Could be a young one. Yeah. Yeah, cuz of Jurassic Park. I mean, them nostrils are like as big as your whole body. That’s a fiction movie. Happened though. [Music] This museum actually belongs to Newcastle University, which is just right across the way from where we are inside here. It is natural history, geology, archaeology, uh, world customs, and kind of everything in between. So, it has a lot of stuff to explore in here. I don’t know why I am so obsessed with all of the Egyptian stuff at museums, but this museum here has a huge floor filled with like remains of pharaohs and Egyptians that lived back in the day and mummies. And ever since I was like in elementary school, I just kind of was obsessed with it all. So, we’re going to explore. Well, we tried, but we’ll get there eventually. [Music] All right, our next spot in Newcastle upon time, the central arcade. I don’t see any pinball machines. It’s a different kind of arcade. It’s just like a They built it as a connection between Main Street, Grey Street, and then Market and Corranger Street, like a cut through. The original one was back in 1837, and it burned down, unfortunately. So, this one that currently is here is from 1906. Beautiful. I love all the Victorian style art that’s all over the place and the walls and the ceiling. Another fun fact is all the stores and shops that you see in here, you can’t actually access from the arcade. You have to go back out to the street and go into the shops that It’s like a little peekaboo though. You walk through here and you can see what they got. It’s like a really just like nice tunnel, above ground tunnel. It’s very beautiful. So, all right. Welcome to Granger Town. This is kind of like the cultural hub of the city, if you will. Yeah. Grey Street and Market Street here in Newcastle has been like the historical like shopping and business center of the city for decades and hundreds of years, a long time. There’s a lot happening here. It’s definitely busy. Live music, people shopping, and this very large monument right behind me here. That That’s like the monument to the tea guy, right? The tea guy. Sorry. It was. Yes. Earl Gay. Charles Earl Gray. And that is him up on the top of the monument way up there. And it’s actually to commemorate when he was prime minister, his cabinet abolished slavery during his time as prime minister. Earl Grey did a lot of good things. He did back in the early 1800s. So, actually not that long ago, but I mean that’s a pretty big, you know, statue worthy accomplishment. Don’t come at me if you did a lot of bad things, too. I don’t know the history of that. Well, I’m sorry. More than half the buildings in Granger Town are like historically listed. It’s gorgeous just to walk around. Let’s do that. [Music] Okay, we just popped over into the Granger Market and this has been around since 1835. There’s restaurants in here. There’s little shops that you can buy little knickknacks and things. And you think that that shirt’s been here since 1835? That’s definitely like modern street wear. [Music] This weight house here used to be how you paid for what you bought here, right, back in the day. So, you buy stuff and you weigh it and you got paid. Now, it’s still there, but you just pay 50 and you can like literally weigh yourself and they will like confirm that it’s accurate. I don’t think I want to know that right now after a bunch of like eating and drinking the last couple of days in the UK. I’m good. But if you want to Nope, I’m all set. Okay. But you can do it if you want to. It is beyond lunchtime. Fried chicken, fries, hot sauce. Trying to like save up for the dinner that we’re going to later. Stay tuned for that. So, we don’t want to eat too much. So, you know, fried chicken, fries, mine ups. [Music] Big ups to Fed’s fried chicken. Big ups. Big ups. I gave big ups. Is that like an old term or is that like what the kids are saying though? I don’t know. I say that. Oh, okay. Big ups to Fed. That was really good. That was a great lunch. I don’t normally care for chicken strips. And they were quite good. Who doesn’t like chicken strip? They know how to do breading up in this part of the world. Like a fish and chips thing. Anything breaded. Oh, very good. [Music] All right. So, if there’s anything I do know about Newcastle, they like to party in Newcastle. Do you see the hendu going up there? Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that happens. Well, we took the train in here from Edinburgh this morning and it was like at 10:00 a.m. And I’m pretty sure the group of guys that got on had been drinking since the night before. Football hooligans, some might say. They were having a good time. We’re continuing. We’re continuing. [Music] So, we’re in our hotel room getting ready to go out to a dinner to show you one of the great things you need to do in Newcastle. And I’m like looking out the window and I’m like, “Wow, this is a nice view.” And I realized that’s literally the castle I’m looking at. Like, that’s the castle of Newcastle that we went to earlier. Great view uh down the street below here. Train tracks. Got to love train tracks by your hotel room. always the best. But no, it’s fine. So, we’re getting ready to go to dinner. You doing all right there, Katrina? I’m doing all right. Did you take a little nap? Not really. You woke me up. I took a little nap. We’re going to rage tonight, right? Yep. Tonight I’m going to rage tomorrow. [Music] Raging. We’re out. It’s Saturday night, man. The outfits. It’s cold. It’s it’s it’s 40 something degrees out here and these girls are in these tiny little outfits just hanging all out. It’s getting a little sloppy and it’s like 700 p.m. Newcastle. I remember being in my 20s and like going out like Did you look like that? I mean, I probably wore questionable stuff cuz it’s warm in the cl. No, you know, I didn’t. But you know what? More power to him. More power to him. But it is Have a great night. Boy, midnight’s going to be interesting. [Music] One thing that I think a lot of Americans probably don’t know this Indian food is a major deal in England. That’s one of the biggest things that you have to do here, which is what we are going to do now, is go try some tasty Indian food. The national dish of England is actually chicken tikka masala. I did not know that. True. But I know that some of the best Indian food I’ve ever had has been in England. Well, here we are. And let’s go do it. You should try some Indian food when you’re in Newcastle or really anywhere in the UK. We’re going to a place called My Delhi. Sounds legit. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] All right. It was way too loud in there to try and like discuss dinner, but dinner was very tasty. It’s definitely more of like a modern Indian food restaurant. Like kind of street food. It Yeah, it was like modern street food. Interesting plates. Some flavors I’d never had before. That chili chicken dish, man. Really good. Fantastic. 10 out of 10. 10 out of 10. I think it was good to kind of not go to a traditional Indian restaurant that like we normally go to. Something new. Yeah, it was a nice spot. We got one more thing tonight. This this trip continues into tomorrow. By the way, we haven’t gotten to all seven things yet. So, you know, you know, we don’t know each other. That’s going to be a good one. We need to get out of here, man. It’s happening here at the wee hours of 8:00 p.m. in Newcastle. Still up, you guys. That was the whole scene. Big Easter weekend. Let’s drink. [Music] Newcastle upon Tine. The Tine is the river. The river has bridges to go between the two sides. Bridges are something you should check out, right? Yes. And there are seven different bridges along the time here. And we are on the high level bridge. And this is the bridge that there’s a railroad on top of. Oh yeah, we saw a train go over there. The train go This is the one we can see from our hotel room. Down along the river. There’s an area called the Quayside, which is I believe I’m saying that right. Uh there’s restaurants and night events, nightclubs. Like people go out at night after dark. Yeah, here they do, Nate. We saw them getting ready. Oh my gosh, they’re getting hype. We’re not getting hype. In fact, we’re winding down, but we have more to do tomorrow for this video. So, in just moments, we might be down on that bridge over there. That one over there. We should be on that bridge. Okay, let’s go to that one. Wa. Well, the sun’s out kind of. Where’d your beanie go? Uh, it fell in the river. All right. Obviously, it’s the next day. We’re on the Millennium Gates Head Bridge. Gates Head Millennium Bridge. Gates Head Millennium Bridge. That’s what I said. This is quite the unique bridge because it like rotates. It’s uh one of the only bridges of its kind and it rotates to a 40° angle like up to let passing this platform we’re on. Yeah. It goes like this. It’s almost like the strings are like pulling it back a little bit and then boats and ships and whatever can pass and then it comes back down. Can you be on it when that happens? I don’t think so. No. There’s warnings and stuff that tell you not to be walking during that time, but it was built in 2001 as part of a pedestrian and a bicycle bridge. So, this is like dual use, but no cars. It bounces when people are running by. The whole thing literally bounces. Yeah, it’s a little unnerving, but it feels pretty secure. I think we’ll be all right. You can see the bridge we were on last night down there. Way down there. And there’s a few other bridges also. There’s the swing bridge, which actually is low to the water and it swings open. And so ships can pass inside. Yeah. And then there’s the Tine Bridge, which was mostly closed to pedestrians this morning. It is. Yeah. They’re doing construction on it, but it’s the one that inspired the Sydney Harbor Bridge, and it looks very similar, just a much smaller version. The arch down there. That’s cool. Bridges. Bridges. There’s seven bridges along the time here, and I can only count six. So, we need to find that seventh bridge somewhere. It’s probably where like the tide curves or something and we can’t see it. But I think it’s cool how you if you come on this bridge, you can like see the other five back there because they’re all at like different levels. Some are lower to the water, some are higher, and some in between. It’s kind of cool. We’re going to exit this bridge and walk down the quayside. And I think there’s a market. This whole area is really neat. So, if you’re in Newcastle, [Music] I just want every dog to let me pet it cuz they speak English here. I have to talk to the dogs in the Netherlands and Dutch, which I’m not very good [Music] at. Did [Music] [Applause] [Music] you have a good time at the market? I did. Yeah. This market has a lot of like unique things that you don’t see. I feel like sometimes you go to these Sunday markets and it’s all the same stuff that you see like, you know, wherever you are traveling, but this one actually has some really cool things like a gypsy, like a real Welsh gypsy. It looks a little sketch in the in the trailer. So, we skipped that part, but it’s here if you want to come check it out. And lots of dogs. Lots of dogs. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] I finally got one of the beers with the little castle on it. Yes, you can. We are here for our Sunday roast. It came out very quickly. We both went with a trio of meats. Chicken, pork, and beef. Smells fantastic. Looks fantastic. And I can’t wait. Happy Easter, by the way. It’s Easter. [Music] The perfect end to a Sunday roast is of course sticky toffee pudding. You ever had to start with? I feel like I must have at some point, but I can I don’t know. I’m not sure. We’re about to. But either way, this is what I wanted. I just wanted toffee sauce with ice cream. And we got that. And I mean, if that’s not the perfect end to a Sunday roast, then I don’t know what is. Cake, toffee sauce, ice cream. [Music] You like it? That’s the best thing I’ve had this entire trip. My entire life, actually. So, you’ve never had this? I don’t think so. I would remember this. I mean, it’s just like a caramel I mean, that’s kind of what toffee is, but like the caramel sauce is excessive, and I love it. that little bit of cold ice cream on the pudding. And there’s some nuts in there, I think, like maybe chopped up really fine. I kind of wish I would have gotten my own. [Music] What a Sunday roast on Easter here in Newcastle. It’s very nice. We got the three meats, trio of meats. Trio of meats. And it was it’s chicken, pork, and beef. very filling. Mashed potatoes, roasted potatoes, roasted vegetables, Yorkshshire pudding, which I’m going to admit that until a couple years ago, I thought that it was like a pudding, like a gooey pudding. The word pudding in the UK means different. Correct. It does. Cuz we also finished our our meal with a sticky toffee pudding that I called a cake. She called a cake. Cuz it looks like a cake. I’m just saying those are two very different puddings, too. One looks like a popover pudding and one is like a cake pudding. Yeah, there you go. So, a Sunday roast, very traditional here in the UK. You can get it in most pubs, restaurants, and on Easter it was great. You should come to Newcastle and you should get a Sunday roast. I had a really nice time. I hope you did. Yeah. And those are kind of like I think our top seven with a couple bonus things thrown in there, things to do in Newcastle. That’s us in Newcastle. We got to get back to Amsterdam. We do. But how are we going to do that? Stay tuned. Come back next week.