England 2016 part I - Hiking Hadrian's Wall

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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

Pity that we missed that one
We missed the hand carved Roman Centurion. That is a pity. Would have enjoyed to see that. Thanks for mentioning it though. With a bit of luck someone else might see the comment and visit it. /Ake