Durham

[gaudinho's stolen car]

Hey!

Durham is beeeeautiful. I lived there for 3 years when I went uni and it is just stunning with a gorgeous cathedral and castle slap bang in the centre of it. It is very small so you will always bump into everyone you know wherever you go but Newcastle is just ten mins away on the train so you get the best of both worlds if you tend to get claustrophobic and crave the big city atmosphere.

There are 12 college bars scattered across the town all in about 5-10 mins of each other which sell cheap ass booze - I dunno if you can do these bar crawls as staff but hey ho it is FUN! I did it with ZMZ once and he ended up on the bar top in Hatfield singing blue moon!

On the down side you do yet a lot of tof's or 'rar's' as they call them in the student community so there are a few fancy shmancy restaurants / coffee bars and the night life is quite tongue in cheek and cheesy (they have a party boat on a Sun and a club called Klute which played ghostbusters when I was there!). However, there are some decent bars/ pubs too and Newcastle is just down the road. There are actually some pubs in the centre that students are told to steer clear of as locals are hostile - The Fighting Cox is the main one. I asked them for a job when I was there haha!

Anyway I'm waffling cos I love Durham - if you have any specific Q's fire them across and I'll do my best to help x

A bluemoon romance??

No I'm just helpful...sharing is caring :D

I did it with ZMZ once

What exactly did you share? Very caring ;)

 

[Sunsh111ne]

one kid went to Durham another currently there.
A beautiful city. As Bill Bryson (chancellor until end of 2011) said - get in your car and visit Durham, if you haven't got a car borrow mine.
Very small and hilly. Very quickly gets rough in the outlying streets. I don't know what other posters consider shmancy restaurants un less they mean Oldfields, Ask and Nandos!
It isn't a campus uni, the teaching areas are all over the city, and you'll have to walk everywhere. It is the only City outside London with a congestion charge! On the whole it is a stunning environment.

I worked in a really pretentious place whilst putting myself thru Uni it was right on the old bailey and was full of rich young students and business men with time on their hands - lots of clicking fingers and such like. Not my cuppa tea but maybe I'm just a peasant!

This does not however take away from the beauty and atmosphere of the place I loved it! I'm sure your kids are very privileged to study there and no doubt to you for propping them up as my old dad did.<br /><br />-- Sat May 21, 2011 7:22 pm --<br /><br />

A bluemoon romance??

No I'm just helpful...sharing is caring :D

I did it with ZMZ once

What exactly did you share? Very caring ;)

 

[pauldominic]

Hey!

Durham is beeeeautiful. I lived there for 3 years when I went uni and it is just stunning with a gorgeous cathedral and castle slap bang in the centre of it. It is very small so you will always bump into everyone you know wherever you go but Newcastle is just ten mins away on the train so you get the best of both worlds if you tend to get claustrophobic and crave the big city atmosphere.

There are 12 college bars scattered across the town all in about 5-10 mins of each other which sell cheap ass booze - I dunno if you can do these bar crawls as staff but hey ho it is FUN! I did it with ZMZ once and he ended up on the bar top in Hatfield singing blue moon!

On the down side you do yet a lot of tof's or 'rar's' as they call them in the student community so there are a few fancy shmancy restaurants / coffee bars and the night life is quite tongue in cheek and cheesy (they have a party boat on a Sun and a club called Klute which played ghostbusters when I was there!). However, there are some decent bars/ pubs too and Newcastle is just down the road. There are actually some pubs in the centre that students are told to steer clear of as locals are hostile - The Fighting Cox is the main one. I asked them for a job when I was there haha!

Anyway I'm waffling cos I love Durham - if you have any specific Q's fire them across and I'll do my best to help x

A bluemoon romance??

No I'm just helpful...sharing is caring :D

Me too. My wife and I had two weeks in beadnell in 2009 - awesome holiday.

 

[Innsbruckblue]

Thanks for all the tips! I've decided to accept the post, but it means I won't be able to make the Community Shield :(

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Congrats, what department?

 

[johnny on the spot]

Do any Blues know anything about the city of Durham?

I've just been offered a temporary teaching post at Durham University.
However, having never actually been to the city, I know nothing about it all.

I would greatly appreciate any info. Cheers.

It's a lovely place mate. Picturesque, steeped in history, learning and culture. Of course it's full of posh wankers who'll have you reaching for a sub-machine gun after mere hours, but you can't have everything.

 

[pauldominic]

Do any Blues know anything about the city of Durham?

I've just been offered a temporary teaching post at Durham University.
However, having never actually been to the city, I know nothing about it all.

I would greatly appreciate any info. Cheers.

It's a lovely place mate. Picturesque, steeped in history, learning and culture. Of course it's full of posh wankers who'll have you reaching for a sub-machine gun after mere hours, but you can't have everything.

PMSL @ that.

 

[Paladin]

Hope you get to meet Prof. David Wilkinson.

 

[Innsbruckblue]

Congrats, what department?

The ESL department.