I can not apologise enough for how late these Culture Trips are, I just got up to a lot in my summer in August that I just forgot to write them all up for my blog. So without further ado, here is my Culture Trip to Durham. Again I must thank my fellow North East… Continue reading Culture Trip 18: Whitworth Hall & Durham

You will see that the last Culture Trip I visited Stockton during the day and I was planning to return to see Cattle & Cane’s  Joe Hammill. Well at the end of September, I did just that and I really enjoyed his performance. I live quite far from Teeside so it took us  (me and… Continue reading Culture Trip 17: Stockton at night

It was August and I was on my holidays and needed something to do, so I asked some North East bloggers and was suggested, Preston Park. If I am honest I had no idea where it was or what it was. So I googled it and off me and the Hirst famalam went. Not knowing… Continue reading Culture Trip 16: Stockton

Not knowing what to do in my second week off, I asked my fellow North East bloggers what should I do? And they mentioned Low Force Waterfall in Durham, I had heard of High Force but not Low Force before so I was interested to visit. Put in the postcode for the Bowlees Visitor Centre… Continue reading Culture Trip 15: Low Force Waterfall

Photo by Linda Hirst Yes, you did read it right, I experienced Crazy Golf but with a twist in Newcastle. I had seen my cousin do it on Facebook and it looked fab so I wanted to go. So I and the Hirst famlam booked onto Mr Mulligans Newcastle Space Golf at Newgate Street. The entrance… Continue reading Culture Trip 14: Space Golf @ Newcastle

You may remember that I did a guide for the fringe festival   a few years ago. With The Great Exhibition of the North happening in Newcastle and Gateshead I thought some of you may like a survival guide for this too. Plan Before you head off into the exhibition, plan your trip- are you going… Continue reading Get North Survival Guide

I have never ever been to the Sunderland Air Show, I know how shocking is that? So on the Saturday 28th July I headed to the Sunderland Airshow to celebrate 30 years of the fantastic event. And what an event it was, it started at 10am but I decided to rock up for the afternoon… Continue reading Celebrating 30th Anniversary of Sunderland Air Show