This is the view downstream from the bridge in front of the castle. The white lines you see in the water are foam from whitecaps because it was really windy.
This is the castle wall close to the river with a satellite dish on the building behind it. I wonder if they knocked some off the wall to get better reception.
This is the Barbican or entrance way to the castle. This is where the drawbridge would be mounted to go over the moat, and, if the enemy got into the Barbican the archers and other soldiers would punish them from above.
Football anyone? St James Stadium. We are staying right across the street. So Newcastle and Victoria are about the same size and St James seats about 55,000 people, and Sunderland which is just down the road has another stadium that is about the same size. I wonder what kind of team in Victoria could draw 55,000 people on a regular basis.
