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- 2023/08/06 11:32
- ☁️ 15 °C
- 海抜: 285 フィート
- イングランドWalton54°58’23” N 2°44’60” W
Day 5 - HADRIANS WALL
2023年8月6日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
The one with the impromptu singalong, a car accident and hot water!
📌 Location: Birdoswald to Carlisle
🥾 Distance: 18 miles
☀️ Weather: Dry and warm all day (bit overcast, so perfect walking weather).
⛑️ Health: Everyone is now feeling a little bit sore and tired, but so far, we have zero injuries (or that anyone is admitting too!).
🏨 Hotel: The Station Hotel in Carlisle is a little bit tired, but the staff are amazing and really can’t do enough to help.
SUMMARY:
Today has been a day filled with honesty sheds, gorgeous farmland and lots of livestock (including a field full of baby cows). It was a long day, but also a fairly cruise day which has been flat in most places.
THE LONG WINDED VERSION:-
7.30am - I popped out with Ann to find a geocache that is hidden in the grounds of the Twice Brewed Pub. I was located in the middle of an old beer barrel on top of a small hill. A good way to start the day.
8am - Breakfast was amazing, although the hotel still had no gas, so there were no hot showers and some of the cooked breakfast was limited. Twice Brewed has the biggest selection of fruit ever. They even had a huge bowl of fresh blackberries and the porridge is cooked just right (said the middle bear!).
8.30am - Scott, our mini-bus driver collects us and we are on our way to Birdoswald. There is an impromptu singalong on the bus… the wheels on the bus go round and round. Everyone seems in good spirits this morning.
9 o’clock and we’re off
935am - The walk takes us alongside The Wall for quite a way this morning, but if I am honest,, the novelty of seeing Hadrian’s Wall and the mile castles is beginning to wear off. I stopped taking photos of each turret and fort and just looked at the pictures. The sun is out and everyone is in t-shirts today which is great.
The discussion in the group turns to new words that the kids are using nowadays. Andrea talks about Epicwow! Which becomes a word we use a lot over the next few hours! We arrive in a dark wood and various ladies scoot off to have a “wild wee”. We then stumble upon an honesty shed that is stocked with ice-creams, a kettle, pot noodles, hot drinks etc.
10:08am We reach Banks noise in the background. My god, that donkey sounds in pain!
1039 am - I am now with the front group of walkers (Pam, Ann & Sue) as they reach another honesty shed. This one has a little box of notes where you can write a message and then pin it to the inside of the shed. People have written all sorts of messages and it makes for good reading. I walk with the three ladies until we reach the small village of Walton.
11.30am -We made it to the Reading Room / Teashop in Walton and I order a scone with jam and a cup of tea. I need this! A man comes into the tearoom asking if there is anyone inside with a black mini. The young girl behind the counter (about 20 years old) said “yes, that’s my car”. She looked worried as the man explained that his wife was outside and she forgot to put the handbrake on, and their car had crashed into the mini. The young girl was very upset and went to see the damage. Meanwhile, I devoured a homemade scone, whilst everyone else had a slice of cake and coffee.
1247pm - I will wait here until the last person in the group has arrived and then I will make a move. Lou & Katie arrived next and ordered coffee. Just as they were leaving the “fab four”, which is Andrea, Viv, Lynne & Rachael arrived (actually, you could hear them before seeing them as they are so full of energy and chit chat, it’s a delight to walk with them). I sat with them for a while and then made a move. I have been here for over an hour now and I need to get going. I like walking in-between the groups as I then know where everyone is.
There was not much that happened for the rest of the day, it was just one foot in front of the other. I caught up with Lou & Katie as they had stopped for lunch in a beautiful spot. I then caught up with the front runners and walked all the way to Carlisle with them. We did pop into The Stag pub for a quick drink, and we said hello to the alpacas on a campsite which was super cute.
5.30pm - Touchdown! As I reached the hotel it was full of scaffolding outside which made my heart sink. Inside, everything was fine and the rooms are clean, and more importantly, they have hot running water and we all have an actual bath in our rooms!
Most of the group go out for an Indian meal, and I enjoy a long soak in the bath and a film.
Tomorrow is out last day and we would have walked across a whole country.もっと詳しく
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