Guess where I went yesterday. I went back to Sunderland for the first time since 1993. Of course, a huge amount of the city is exactly the same as it was then but there are many changes: the stadium of light (see below) the university buildings on the Wear shopping centres across the Queen Alexandra bridge ... Here are some snaps what I took, including one of a house I used to live in. I bought some genuine pease pudding from Ibbitson's in Jacky White's Market! Delicious it is too.

Then again, I really went up there to go to a meeting in Chester le Street: here's a pub sign for you: