Day 8: Finished as we began, with wet feet
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...
Category: Travellers Tales
Day 7: Gilsland to Newtown, the nicest day
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...
Day 6: Steel Rigg to Gilsland, both up and down!
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...
Day 5: Vindolanda
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...
Day 4: Walking the Wall
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...
Day 3: Site-seeing – a rest day
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...
Postscript to our lonely Aussie
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...
Day 2: Snorkels would have helped!
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...
Day 1: Newcastle upon Tyne: reflecting on ruins
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...
There are things to be said for long flights…
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...