Embarked on an epic five and a half hour round bus trip to spend about 4 hours with my bestie for her birthday. Pottered around Newcastle, good food, fancy ice cream, boozy hot chocolate when it started to get a bit chilly. Saw a man being pulled down a steep hill by a tiny but overexcited doggo.

Totally worth the trip, although the buses in both directions were so full they kept having to turn people away and since those buses only go once an hour, well, I hope those people actually made it home somehow.