Days 14, 15, 16 and 17.

Day 16: The Laing Art gallery on a rainy lunch break from tutoring.

Day 17: The North Terrace pub... the local...

Day 14: Six at the Baltic sits on the roof and seems to float over the gallery space below to allow light through. It was a dark wet evening and we were sat on the south side so no nice river views, just the awful blocks of flat. Exciting structure

Day 15: Family walk on the Northumberland coast.

Day 6.

Day six:

Today I went down to the Baltic with my sketchbook. My main reason for going was to buy a few birthday presents for a couple of people but as I was there I thought I may as well have a look around.

Martin Parr and Kimsooja were both very good. I only saw the ground floor of Parr's photographs as I didn't have much time and wanted to save the other floor for a later date (got to ration out the fun in these long days of unemployment). Kimsooja's films are really interesting. There's a point in the Indian film I think where a TV crew arrive to film her making her film. I'm not here to write reviews but I will say it's worth a look.