Category: Travellers Tales
There are no pictures of today, because the day began with drizzle and degenerated during the morning into rain. I packed the camera into the backpack and our passports were packed into the waterproof...
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We declined an offer of a lift back to Gilsland: it was such a stunning day that the extra mile didn’t matter. There was not other way across the river, so we picked our...
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Vallum Lodge provided a perfect breakfast after an excellent night’s sleep, so we thanked Claire and Michael and walked back along the Military Road to the Twice Brewed Inn and turned left, towards the...
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This was a deliberate rest day because I’d spotted Vindolanda on the map and knew that it was worth a visit. I think secretly I wanted to do the 7 mile circular walk that...
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It was one of the warmest days yet of summer, although here in the north that means 23 degrees. We were very glad by the end of the day to have remembered both shorts...
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As one might expect, we slept like logs after the exertions of the night before, and it was nice to get up safe in the knowledge that we wouldn’t have to drag our aches...
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Apparently it was common to bury those aircrew killed in training or who died of wounds but whose bodies came home in local churchyards. I suppose since so many Aussies came out of Empire...
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We knew this would be a wet day, but the forecast promised that the showers would clear in the afternoon, so we left John and David at Wormald House in an optimistic frame of...
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We saw quite a lot of the National Rail System today, but it all worked like clockwork and gave us some insights into rail history. The day began in York and ended in the...
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It’s perhaps the only chance I get in the year to catch up with movies, TV series and books that I should have seen or read bu didn’t, so as long as the seats...
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