Today, we were able to get an early start. We made our first stop Chester's Roman Fort in Chollerford and got there right when it opened. The site is fairly large and easy to walk around. Besides the fort, there was a Roman bridge once upon a time that crossed the nearby river. It has collapsed and been rebuilt but no longer can be seen. The Roman baths here are also in very good shape.
This part of the walk has been the best so far, despite strong wind in our face for most of the journey. The scenery, landscape and parts of the wall that can be viewed make the walk very picturesque. It was a 12 mile hike though so by the end of the day, we were beat again.
The other site we saw in the afternoon was Housesteads which is a wall fort much like the rest except this one was built on a hillside so is better preserved than the others it seemed. The fort was also quite large. Liz and I know our forts by now, since most have the same template layout, so we can recognize the rocks pretty well and tell our barracks from our bathhouses.
Tonight we are at The Twice Brewed Inn in Once Brewed. So that's a mouthful and so was my yummy dinner tonight. I ate a lot to make up for all those lost calories today.
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