{"id":7,"date":"2023-05-12T09:43:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T08:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/narrative2024\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2023-06-09T11:29:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T10:29:27","slug":"staying-in-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/narrative2024\/staying-in-newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel and Staying in Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">You can fly direct into <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newcastleairport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle International Airport<\/a> from London, Amsterdam and Paris. If you fly into London, Glasgow, Edinburgh or Manchester, you can easily reach Newcastle by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalrail.co.uk\/stations\/newcastle\/\" target=\"_blank\">train<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Newcastle is a very walkable city, with a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nexus.org.uk\/metro\" target=\"_blank\">metro<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stagecoachbus.com\/regionaltickets\/north-east\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/singlesandreturns\" target=\"_blank\">bus<\/a> service. Uber and a number of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bluelinetaxis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">taxi<\/a> services operate in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The conference will take place in the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newcastlehelix.com\/explore\/the-frederick-douglass-centre\" target=\"_blank\">Frederick Douglass Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There are <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ngcb.hotelplanner.com\/Event\/582e\/\" target=\"_blank\">hotels <\/a>recommended by<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ngi.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\"> NewcastleGateshead Initiative<\/a> (more being added soon), but there are many other options in the city, including major UK hotel chains (Travelodge, Premier Inn) and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/st\/hostels\/europe\/england\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/\" target=\"_blank\">hostels<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">You can visit this <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newcastlegateshead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a> for more information about Newcastle museums, restaurants and attractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Within an hour\u2019s travel from Newcastle are: the tidal island of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindisfarne.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lindisfarne<\/a>; the UNESCO World Heritage sites of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisdurham.com\/explore-durham\/durham-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Durham<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.english-heritage.org.uk\/visit\/places\/hadrians-wall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hadrian\u2019s Wall<\/a>; the famous bookstores of the market towns of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barterbooks.co.uk\" data-type=\"URL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alnwick<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookcasecarlisle.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carlisle<\/a>; and plenty of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramblers.org.uk\/go-walking-hub\/britains-best-walks-north-east-england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hiking<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdwatchingsites.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wildlife<\/a> destinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can fly direct into Newcastle International Airport from London, Amsterdam and Paris. If you fly into London, Glasgow, Edinburgh or Manchester, you can easily reach Newcastle by train. Newcastle is a very walkable city, with a metro and bus service. Uber and a number of taxi services operate in the city. The conference will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/narrative2024\/staying-in-newcastle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Travel and Staying in Newcastle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10546,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/narrative2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/narrative2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/narrative2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/narrative2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/narrative2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/narrative2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/narrative2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/narrative2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}