We woke in Dark Tower this morning around 630am to a foggy very cool and still morning. After a quick breakfast of bananas and cereal we started a slow walk punctuated by many photo sessions. The wall is long, we all know that, but until your on the wall its hard to get a grasp of the size and the enormity of the effort gone into building even short sections.The wall is around 3m wide and what struck me most was the size of the watchtowers. Most of these on their own are very impressive buildings that are very solid, multi storey and would have taken considerable resources. Dark Tower where we slept was huge, these buildings were as little as 60m apart. For enemies approaching this line of defence it must have been utterly demoralising.
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