Saturday 11th October, Hadrians Wall

Today I was walking on Hadrian’s Wall with Myra to help her prepare for an overseas trek. We left the car in Greenhead and caught the early morning bus to the National Park visitor centre at Once Brewed. After a quick tour of the exhibition we headed off up hill to join the path along the wall.

It turned out to be a fine Autumn day although it was still wet under foot from the heavy rains of the past few days. We saw relatively few people on the path all day and enjoyed the peace and quiet on this part of the wall.

Sections of the wall are still in good condition and are quite impressive. We made a number of stops along the way to explore some of the forts.

Eventually we descended down a long hill to the remains of Thirwell Castle before a short walk along the river led us back to the local tearoom in Greenhead and the end of our walk