Blogs from Haltwhistle, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, Europe

18 August 2019, SundayToday I experience the AD122 Hadrian's wall country bus. Visit the newly opened Sill visitors center and gateway to Northumberland National Park. And Vindolanda old Roman fort and archeological site.Having gotten about seven and a half hours sleep, but still suffering a bit of jet lag, I was awake about 4:30 so had about three and a half hours before breakfast. The Burncrest B&B had a wonderful full English breakfast with lime and kiwi yogurt, a banana and then the full breakfast with French press coffee and toast. See photo.Les who is Margaret Ellery's husband was the cook for the breakfast. He spent some time telling me about his experiences as a nuclear chemist for the British government and all of the bomb testing that he was involved with around the world. The ... read more

Notes from a hiking vacation in Northern England Last summer we hiked from the east coast to the west coast in England. This is a trip we for several years have been thinking of doing. We will soon begin to tell our story from the trail. But first we have a message to potential hikers. If you are planning on hiking all or parts of the Hadrian's Wall Path yourself we have for your benefit in the end of this blog entry added some travel information. You might learn one or two useful things there. Almost 2,000 years ago the Romans ruled much of Europe. The Roman Empire had its northern borders in what today is northern Germany and northern England. In the year 122 CE the Roman emperor Hadrian decided to mark the northern boundary ... read more

Geo: 54.9709, -2.45723The subject of this entry just about summarizes the last couple of days. Monday was a lazy morning. Sarah and Maureen off to work and Joe golfing, we headed around the corner for supplies at the supermarket. Pies, pizza, bacon and cereal. On the subject, its become a clear discovery that British bacon is far superior to Australian bacon. After pizza for lunch Joe returned, and we all decided to go for a bike ride. We started off at Bear Park, and rode through the countryside through to Lanchester. It took about 2 to 2.5 hours return to go the 15 miles. It was a fun ride!Today, Tuesday I whipped up some bacon sandwiches, and around 9 we were off to Hadrians Wall.Hadrians wall is old. The Romans invaded Britain around 55AD and took ... read more