Thanks Thanks for all the comments. We too loved the bridges. There were even more bridges around but we decided to only publish photos of the most interesting ones. /Ake
Cars are allowed Cars are allowed in the city center but often I guess it is more convenient to park outside the city wall and go on foot from there. /Ake
Yes, it is horribe I think they are restoring the tower to its former glory. But while they are doing it it is ugly and the photos come out as **** /ake
Thanks for posting this blog... I've been interested in hiking the length of Hadrian's Wall, so this is helpful. We've visited various forts and sections over the years. Given what you've written I may just hike the 80 km where the Wall is intact. Do you have a favorite stage or two?
Favourite section It takes about 6 to 7 days to walk it all if you are resonably fit and hike in a moderate pace. With moderate pace I mean that you will be walking from morning to afternoon but you still have time to rest, have coffee, have lunch, take photos and talk to people. If you want to walk less than that the hike the simple choice is to cut off the ends.
You could probably do the section Heddon-on-the-wall to Carlisle, thus cutting off roughly 20 km in each end, in four days and don't feel like you have missed anything. If you wish to walk even less, again cut off the ends.
Having said that, I would like to add that I did enjoy the first and the last day of the hike as well. It was interesting to walk through Newcastle because much of the way we walked though areas a tourist normally wouldn't venture into and I did see one or two things I wouldn't have wanted to miss.
The same goes with the section Carlisle to Bowness. I remember three things we saw on that stretch which I am happy to have seen.
Ake
Minor fort and barracks The wall was guarded. There were minor lookout towers/sconses frequently throughout and some of those were slightly larger. The milecastles (which actually is written as one word) were roughly one Roman mile apart, hence the name. The milecastles were a larger lookout and also contained barrcks for the soldiers.
Ake
We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden.
We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them.
Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are
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