Carole and Jenny

After a good nights sleep, we had an excellent breakfast, thanks to Bistro En Glaze.  We doubled back on ourselves, past Stephenson’s Cottage and then crossed a golf course, towards Heddon On The Wall.  Here we found the first major part of The Wall, very close to the houses.

Our day was one of exploration.

 Vallum excavated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 and vallum unexcavated.

 

We were very conscious that this day was at least 17 miles long and the weather forecast was poor.  So we strode it out along the trail , losing track of the number of stiles we crossed.

Key highlights included the pigs at Harlow Hill, a much needed toilet stop at The Great Northern Lake ( not in the lake !) and sunshine and blue sky for the 1st time.

 

Today we covered a large part of the trail, where the wall was unexcavated. We walked on top of it and within it ie in a ditch and so got a real sense of the scale of it.  This part of Northumberland is really beautiful, even with low, grey cloud and spots of rain.

 

Jenny, on a downward slope, has had a confrontation with a cow pat and is currently washing her waterproof trousers!!

Tonights B & B is The Hadrian Hotel in the aptly named village, Wall! 

Foot report for day 2:

Jenny still no blisters ( Mrs Smug)

Carole still with the same 3 plasters - result!!

Alcohol report:

Jenny - 1 gin and 2 white wines (Dry)

Carole - sneaked a sly cider in the afternoon and 1 gin and 1 wine with evening meal!!

Thanks for reading this. Please leave a comment, as we need lots of motivation to keep going!!!!

 

 

 

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