Located just one mile from Newcastle city center and the popular Quayside, the Swallow ... more
Newcastle Gateshead is well situated for seeing the city. This modern hotel offers 103 guestrooms, all of which have bright bedding and contemporary decorations, as ...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Located just one mile from Newcastle city center and the popular Quayside, the Swallow ... more
Newcastle Gateshead is well situated for seeing the city. This modern hotel offers 103 guestrooms, all of which have bright bedding and contemporary decorations, as ...
Information:
Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Less than one mile from Newcastle city centre and the lively Quayside is the relaxing ... more
Swallow Newcastle Gateshead Hotel The celebrated bridges over the Tyne including the new Gateshead Millennium Bridge link the hotel with the bustling city of Newcast...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Advantages: Nice rooms, good facilities Disadvantages: Bed uncomfortable
####PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS HOTEL IS NOW A PREMIER TRAVEL INN AT THE TIME OF ME STAYING THEY WERE STILL PART OF THE TULIP INN CHAIN###
I won a night at this hotel in a charity auction at work. It is about 1 mile from work and about 4 miles from home, but a night away from the children with just my hubby is not something I would ever turn my nose up at.
LOCATION
The hotel is located just off the A1 in Gateshead and is easy to access. It is at the edge of a trading estate, 5 minutes drive from Newcastle City Centre, and 3 junctions on the A1 from The Metrocentre. It is an ideal location for anyone wanting to take a break in this area which combines shopping, sightseeing and nightlife. There is a large free car park outside the hotel.
CHECK IN
The reception area is spacious, airy and welcoming. Check in was simple, I handed over ...
Summary: reasonably enjoyable if there is nothing better, lively, trashy fantasy
"Swallowing Darkness" is the seventh Meredith Gentry novel and the first one I read. Despite that I had no problems at all in following the plot - even though there isn't that much obvious exposition in the novel.
Meredith NicEssus is a faerie princess in a slightly alternative world (i.e. US) where faeries are known by the humans - a treaty allowed them to settle in the US three hundred years on the condition that they don't engage in war or make humans worship them.
The faerie courts are obsessed by purity of blood and even more so by purity of looks and Meredith, who is mortal, curvy and has not just human but also lesser fey ancestors, flees the Faerie and starts working as a private investigator in the human world. But her disguise ends when ...
Advantages: Heart warming, endearing, beautiful descriptive writing Disadvantages: Younger readers could struggle with long description and technical sailing terms
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
~~~Setting~~~
Swallows and Amazons was written in 1930, an adventure story aimed at children and the first of a series of 12 novels for which their author is most well known. Set in the Lake District, it follows the adventures during one summer holiday of the Swallows (brothers and sisters John, Susan, Titty and Roger) as they camp on an island of adventure, make enemies and then friends with the Amazon pirates (Nancy and Peggy), solving mysteries and chasing thieves. It is a very tame, but very charming novel, seemingly enjoyed by children and adults alike.
I bought and read it earlier this year after visiting a permanent exhibition on Arthur Ransome in the Museum of Lakeland Life in Kendal. It is so evocative of the Lake District that it is a pleasure to read for this alone.
~~~The Plot ...
