Category Archives: England
Finished!
We finished the walk yesterday after a long 15 miles from Carlisle to Bowness-on-Solway. I’ll update more with day by day information, pictures and videos when I get to a place with better/more consistent internet. Getting on the train to … Continue reading
Day 8 – FINISHED!
Day 8 dawned slightly cloudy and started with me dithering over whether I should wear my boots or my tennis shoes. Part of the trail that day would be pavement and part trail. I was torn, but as it wasn’t … Continue reading
Day 7 – One day left
Walked 12 miles today in from Walton and I am sitting in an internet cafe in Carlisle that is, hopefully, on the way to our resting spot for the night. It was rainy and cloudy all day today and we … Continue reading
Day 6
Day 6 was Gilsland to Walton. The second “light” day – only 8 miles. The day was bright and sunny; the nicest one we’d seen on our walk. Would have been great to have my sunglasses, but I had cracked … Continue reading
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Tagged birdoswald, england, hadrian's wall, sheep, sore, walk, walton
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Day 5
Day 5 was day two of the crags. It was also a “light” day, only eight miles to go that day. We were driven back to the trail by the lovely innkeeper. I had two pairs of socks dangling off … Continue reading
Day 4
Where we stayed was at least a mile off of the trail and since we’d been to Chesters fort the afternoon before, our first half hour or so of the day was going over ground we’d covered before. No, that … Continue reading
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Tagged Chesters, crags, england, hadrian's wall, housesteads, rain, sore, sycamore gap, walk
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Day 3
In the morning, I got the unnecessary scare of the door to our bedroom at the B&B seemingly opening on its own. It was, in fact, the owner’s little white dog who was desperate for some attention. When we went … Continue reading
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Tagged Chesters Roman Fort, chollerford, england, hadrian's wall, walk
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Day 2
Day 2 dawned with the first thought of, “I don’t feel too bad.” This was shortly followed by getting up and moving around and the thought, “Are you kidding me? How long do I have to walk today? How long … Continue reading
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Tagged east wallhouses, england, hadrian's wall, heddon-on-the-wall, walk
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Day 1
Started by getting on a subway from Whitley Bay to Wallsend, named, as you might imagine, because it was at the end (for us the beginning) of Hadrian’s Wall. Went by Segedunum, what was once a large Roman fort and … Continue reading
The night before the walk
We are in the Oak Tree Lodge in Whitley Bay getting ready to start our walk tomorrow. We start with 12 miles, quite a bit of it is through Newcastle along the river. I think the Tyne, but it could … Continue reading
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Tagged england, great britain, hadrian's wall, newcastle, nottingham, sherwood forest, walk, whitley bay, ye olde trip to jerusalem
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