Monthly Archive: July 2017
It’s nearly four hundred miles north from Luss to Kylesku, and any feeling of irritation swiftly dissipated as we made our way north. We had to discipline ourselves to only stop occasionally, because the...
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There was a real sense of excitement in picking up the car and heading over the border, and the views of Loch Lomond didn’t disappoint, but the hotel is only and overpriced OK, and...
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Our nice friends from Sheffield, Dom and Janet Staines, described the activity of going to a destination and then walking as ‘bumbling’, and expression that we like so much that it is worthy of...
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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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