Newcastle Jesmond Hotel
Posted on: Fri September 16, 2011
I had the pleasure of popping up to Newcastle the other week for a little photo job. I’m a Newcastle United fan so the area is somewhat familiar, although I have never actually lived there.
The train journey isn’t too much of a nightmare from where I live either, I can get a direct train to London that takes about an hour, then hop across to St Pancras and get the train straight to Newcastle. I think the whole journey took about 6 hours.
I arrived at the hotel and was met by a lovely lady who was the manageress of the hotel and I later met the owner who was equally lovely. However they weren’t quite ready for me, the hotel was going through a major refurbishment and the finishing touches were not quite there yet. Something I have learned from doing jobs like this is that very often you have to think on your feet and work around issues like this. Over the afternoon I managed to get quite a few shots and the following morning everyone worked really hard with those last minute finishing touches and I finished the job.
Superb staff and a lovely hotel, I think I will be visiting next time for pleasure.
I managed to finish off by taking a walk from near South Sheilds back to Newcastle to do some personal work. I didn’t quite bargain for how far it was (especially when I took the wrong route!), by the time I reached Newcastle my feet had blisters and I was shattered. I’ll share some of those photos soon.