Kilometres walked : Wednesday – 9.9km

Wednesday 15th March, 2023.

From the moment we exited the motorway, snow blanketed the fields and sat atop the tree branches making it look like a winter wonderland. Our faces were almost pressed against the windows staring in amazement at how beautiful it looked.

We were on our way to walk a section of historical Hadrians Wall. After a much need coffee stop to warm us up at The Sill, we parked up at Steel Rigg and set off to see Hadrians Wall and Sycamore’s Gap. With snow everywhere and scenery straight out of a tv show, it was quite amazing to see such a long still intact section of a wall that is 2000 years old. Most of the wall that spanned 73 miles from coast to coast to guard the wild north west frontier of the Roman Empire has disappeared. Over the years stones from the wall were used to build Castles, farmhouses and churches so hence there isn’t a lot of it left now. It was a very impressive to see such history.

We kept trekking on to Housesteads Fort a few miles ahead. Wow, another picturesque walk snaking it’s way along the wall, through a small thicket of trees alongside the lake and passing fluffy black cows, cute farmhouses and very wooly sheep. 🐏

To finish off a fantastic day we had a wonderfully delicious meal with the cousins at Francesca’s 🍕🍷