Hello from rainy Newcastle. My good weather ended Friday. It rained a good deal Saturday, though I was inside for two shows so I missed some of that. And yesterday it was on and off. I checked into my hotel ---let's just say it's a budget place, but it's clean. I decided to walk over to the "Sage Gateshead," to pick up my tickets for tomorrow night. As I started to walk the rain came, so I hopped on a bus.
The "Sage" is a very strange looking building. I'm trying to think of how to describe it--maybe a caterpillar (with a bump on top). I picked up the tickets and took a slow walk back to the center of town (oh, and talked to my sister on the phone--from a "phone box." I'm glad they still have those here. My cell phone doesn't work here, so I bought a phone card that you can use overseas). I had some photos printed at "Boots," the ubiquitous drug stores in the UK. And I'm writing this from "Pizza Express." They have free wi-fi. It's in a mall, so I don't know what the weather is like right now.
No show tonight. When I'm London I'm used to having a choice of shows, but no such luck here.
I think I probably should have waited and come here tomorrow. That way I would have had one more day in London.
