UK 2022

Breakfast was scrambled eggs and smoked salmon on a bagel along with pan au chocolate. I gave Joe my 3 shirts to wash since they were going to do some laundry on their stay in town, and I gave Deb my blue flannel shirt since she was cold.

Paul picked us up at 9:15 and our adventure to Hadrian's Wall began. Our first stop was Corbridge Roman Town. It was an English town that traded with the Romans. Eventually the Romans setup barracks. The water came down from the hills and they gathered it in baths. The water then was diverted through culverts that were covered with stone slabs. It continued along to eventually run down to the river. Originally there were two garrisons of soldiers that were consolidated into one. The granary had vents underneath for air flow.

It was coming up to 11:30 so Paul took us to The Riverside Kitchen. The cheese and tomato melt was delicious. And the triple chocolate bar and raspberry bar was taken for the road.

Next off to Housteads Roman Fort. We walked a half mile up the hill to get to Hadrian's Wall. There was an art structure built that allowed you to go up above the wall. The countryside was beautiful, and lots of sheep dip as they were all over the hill sides. You could walk on the wall if you went over to the Grove of trees.

Birdoswald Roman Fort was last. Another place to see the wall and the leftovers of a Roman fort.

The countryside as we were driving along was just spectacular. We even saw the Sycamore Gap Tree or Robin Hood Tree. The major highways were normal highways and the country roads windy and twisty and close.

Upon our return I took a short nap. Joe and Deb had a good day around Keswick. They even walked down to the lake, about 10 minutes.

During our drive, Paul told a story of a Sri Lankan family that he took on tour. The grandfather had worked as an engineer on a boat, and wanted to go down to the port where he had worked on the boat. Paul could not understand why they would want to go there. It turns out that with some digging at the museum, they were able to find the records of that boat being there when the grandfather had worked on it.

The four of us walked into town for supper at Asaya Thai Restaurant. Paul had told us that this was the good one of the two in Keswick. We stopped at the Bookend book store at the end of Stringer St. Back to Badgers Wood to pack and get ready for our Glasgow adventure which would start at 9:00 am tomorrow.