Weekend away

what a eventful weekend, the Beijing Olympic finish and London having two party, on Saturday the Nothing hill carnival then sunday the pass over Olympic party in front of the Buckingham palace and trafagal square. so we get away from all the mayhem by travelling up to Newcastle to visit my husband mother, since on her own, we decided to keep her company for 2 days. it took around 3 and a half hour drive up and back. we only watch the event on TV, i was hoping to see Malaysia my own country to have a medal, but apparently we did not get any, oh what a shame.....what happen to our badminton team? i recall we were quite good. Anyway while we were up at Newcastle, we do a little sightseeing, we visited a place called whitbey, it was a fishing village, so many fish and chip shop around and yes i did have same! it was nice. also a lot of curiosity shops. it was nice to get away from busy London.