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Mar 2021
10:02pm, 24 Mar 2021
8,238 posts
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Too Much Water
[Sounds like you know what you’re doing - presumably you read HeadforPoints blog or similar. You could transfer as few as 3 points from Amex which would keep your Hilton points alive in case you can’t make the stays. I am Diamond after spending most of the past December living in a Hilton]
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Mar 2021
10:08pm, 24 Mar 2021
6,886 posts
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
Another vote for Ruchill parkrun DeeGee. The Grosvenor facade was rebuilt 40 years ago after a fire destroyed most of the enormous building. Still very imposing and close to the best bits of the city's West End.
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Mar 2021
11:56pm, 24 Mar 2021
867 posts
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honestmackem
Not sure if it’s too much of a trek for you DeeGee but Hilton Newcastle Gateshead overlooks the Tyne Bridge on the Gateshead side. It’s within 2 miles of both Newcastle parkrun and Leazes parkrun in the North and Gateshead parkrun and Windy Nook in the South of the Tyne. Newcastle Central train station is also nearby.
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Mar 2021
9:22am, 25 Mar 2021
20,434 posts
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DeeGee
Newcastle is never too much of a trek for me! Thanks for this.
I can make a weekend of it with a Beamish visit, too. Just under three hours by car, it'll make a late night for the little one but that's a good weekend plan!
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Mar 2021
9:39am, 25 Mar 2021
843 posts
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Hunkyteddy
I've been wanting to go to Newcastle for a while. Bit of a trek for me but possibly the one part of England that I've not been to.
I may pass on the Hilton though, it'll just be a travelodge for me..
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Mar 2021
9:44am, 25 Mar 2021
33,103 posts
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Old Croc
I think there's a Hilton near to the Aberdeen parkrun.
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Mar 2021
10:23am, 25 Mar 2021
13,867 posts
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larkim
Newcastle's parkrun community is very nice. Son is at Uni there, and I've made early morning trips to run the Newcastle (Town Moor) one and Leazes; both lovely, Leazes perhaps the more aesthetically appealing. Still got a few more to tick off; Jesmond Dene looks fun!
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Mar 2021
10:35am, 25 Mar 2021
45,887 posts
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LindsD
Jesmond Dene is fab. We did it in teeming rain.
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Mar 2021
10:40am, 25 Mar 2021
872 posts
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honestmackem
I quite fancy the Jesmond one, looks a bit like the one at Benton which has a bit of a xc feel about it. My go to parkruns are at the Coast at Whitley Bay and my hometown one in Sunderland- I need to explore more round here.... and there are plenty now!
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Mar 2021
10:52am, 25 Mar 2021
13,868 posts
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larkim
Son's just been accepted for 4 more years in the Toon so I'll get to enjoy all of the parkruns there; was getting through them and then "lockdown..."
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