Month: July 2024

Today was our last hurrah. We got up early and strode towards Wallsend, avoiding the last remnants of the Friday night revellers on the Quayside. It was an interesting route, I grew up on Tyneside but the green pathway out to St Anthony’s point took me by surprise, until I realised that it had been… Continue reading Hadrians Wall Path – Day 8

This morning was all about the ‘Military Road’ or the B6318 as it’s more formally known. It runs from Greenhead, where we stayed on day 3 of the trip, to Heddon-on-the-wall and we have run across it fairly often in the course of our walk but since yesterday we have more or less just been… Continue reading Hadrians Wall Path – Day 7

We started this morning beside the lovely banks of the North Tyne, With scenic views in both directions and a quietly fishing heron. You may have noticed that yesterday I mentioned that Sewingshields Crag was the last big climb of the holiday. Apparently, I gave the impression that from now on it would be at… Continue reading Hadrians Wall Path – Day 6

Today was definitely a day of two halves. We started the morning well aware of the challenge which awaited us having seen the Peel Crags stretching into the distance from the top of ‘Mount Doom’ yesterday. And wow, what a roller-coaster that was, from the off! None of the climbs were long, apart from the… Continue reading Hadrians Wall Path – Day 5

This was the shortest day yet, but took an inordinate amount of time! A fact potentially explained by the elevation profile 🏔️ We started the day with a bit of fun, playing hide and seek in Thirlwall Castle, not hugely successfully with enormous bags on🙂 Thirlwall Castle was beloved of 19th Century Romantics, both poets… Continue reading Hadrians Wall Path – Day 4

This morning we woke to find that we were faced with a normal Cumbria Summer’s Day – it was raining🌧️🌧️. However, fortified by an amazing breakfast courtesy of Deborah, we donned the waterproofs (there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad gear!) and cheerfully strode out for a 1.5km uphill trudge to rejoin… Continue reading Hadrians Wall Path – Day 3

So, this morning, we abandoned my battered but beloved car at Carlisle train station for the week, and set off on our adventure with all our belongings in the ‘big bags’! We fortified ourselves with a very nice Eggs benedict at Bartons Yard Cafe in Carlisle first though😊 Today was very much a game of… Continue reading Hadrians Wall Path – Day 2

So three years after our Ridgeway adventure, our collective pain amnesia kicked in and we thought “why don’t we do another 8 day long distance walk” 😂 Fortunately, some vestiges of memory remained and so we settled for the ‘only’ 84 miles of the Hadrians Wall Path from ‘Wallsend’ to the actual Wallsend NE28. Our… Continue reading Hadrians Wall Path – Day 1