Organized Konfusion's Journal: Touring the UK

Well last week I got to see the North East, an area of the country which I have always imagined to be run down and crappy.

I was pleasantly surprised, I'm sure there are run down parts of these cities but the centers were very nice.

Map of where I went.

1. Started from Leicester
2. Harrowgate
-- There was a large show called the "Great Yorkshire Show" and this really held us up. Didn't get to look around much.

3. Darlington
4. Durham
-- Wow, this place is really nice, full of tourists, loads of great scenery and worth visiting.

5. Sunderland
6. Gateshead
7. Newcastle
-- Stayed the night here and had a mash up, I was really shocked by how friendly people were here compared to the south.

8. Middlesborough
-- Very nice city for shopping, not too crowded and not too big. also loads of clubs

9. Scarborough
-- Full of old people, we stayed the night here and the hotel was exactly like fawlty towers!!

10. York
-- Nice historic town
11. Leeds
-- Much bigger than I thought it would be and very cosmopolitan.

12. Wakefield
-- Not much to say about here.

Re:mash up

[Organized Konfusion]

Defn: [urbandictionary.com]
Mash Up

1)Someone who is so intoxicated by alcohol that they are unable to master even the simple act of standing up.

2)The act of becoming so intoxicated by alcohol that the simple act of standing up becomes a mighty challenge.
Last night, he was mash up!

I'M MASH UP!!

Let's all get mash up!

stolen from urban dictionary!

Durham & York

[Ethelred Unraed]

Been there, too, and loved Durham. Beautiful city, and spectacular cathedral.

York was too blatantly touristy for me, though.

Newcastle, at that time, was still very down on its luck (this was early 1994) and a real shithole. We were there to go to Jarrow for Bede's old church, and it was a harrowing experience...really hated that city. (We stayed at the hostel, which was an utter nightmare.) Though I've heard that Newcastle has improved dramatically since...

I agree, though, I prefer the North to anywhe

I am flying out to ireland on monday

[Organized Konfusion]

To make things like this journal easier I'm going to take a small notebook (paper one) and jot down things, even remembering the cities I went to was a pain.