Happy Columbus Day to you today! Robert and Katya are home, but the boys are at school, since only Americans celebrate Columbus-hehehe.
Back to August for a moment…On our way back from Scotland, we made a short detour from the straight route, passing Glasgow and turning off at Carlisle towards Hexham (that’s point B).
The area west of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne is the general area where in AD122, Emperor Hadrian ordered to build the 118-km long Hadrian’s Wall. It marked the northernmost border of the Roman province of Brittania. It was meant to protect from the “barbarians” from the North.
Hexham is the sight of an ancient Roman fort—Housesteads Fort, built on a steep slope.
Kids just wanted to run around, I think they were pretty done with sightseeing of any kind of ruins.
Mark was doing some yoga moves.
And Robert was jus taking pictures of the bathroom. This is a communal latrine. You can see on the picture explaining how it was set up centuries ago.
Robert’s dream is to go on a Hadrian’s Wall hike someday and cross England from one sea to another. It would be fun, right? (and hard).
Well, that is it for now (I know…this post was lacking any depth-haha). We have so much to explore in Great Britain still!
Cheers,
Lyana.
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