Saturday 1st May 2010 - Travel to Newcastle - Written by Michaela

Ok everyone, most of us have arrived safely, it was a very very long day and at the moment it's 9.35pm and 7 of us have arrived at our first B&B of the trek. Pippa and John are on their way and will be arriving a little later.

The drive up was ok, uneventful and traffic thankfully was on our side.

We stopped around half way up at Wetherby at the request of Patricks friends who are now also our new friens too after we spent a glorious lunchtime with them, Many many thanks for a lovely meal to Brian, Carolynn and Flick and also thanks or your kind donation to our cause.

We left this morning with our fundraising target around £60 short of our £5000 target but by the time we arrived in Newcastle we had reached our target which now means that I must keep to my promise to wear a tutu for the whole of the trek, but I will do my best to ensure that the rest of the 'TEAM' also take part, after all they have promised to support the cause to their upmost !!!!

As we drove up the A1 it was lovely to see that despite being May now there was still snow on the North Yorkshire Moors and also along the ridge of the North Pennines.

The scenery and landscape up here is truly breathtaking, dry stone walls that have stood for hundreds of years criss crossing the fields and the hilarious young lambs in the fields which are always a joy to see.

We are currently in the hotel bar enjoying a pint or two (honest just a couple!!)

Our accomodation for the first night was the Oaktree Lodge in Whitley Bay - Highly recommended.