Day 5: Job done
Well, according to my guidebook the citizens of Bowness on Solway worry that they're being forgotten as a terminus of Hadrian's Wall... And to be fair if you don't have walker's OCD there's not a great deal to recommend this section - for me its 17 miles of unremitting tarmac and farm tracks is important but not essential.
But the day starts with end of Carlisle, and follows the Eden out, and out... There's little evidence of the wall, the odd section of the vallum and reused stonework in buildings. But it isn't unpleasant, just not the same as the soaring challenges as the days before.
The main challenge was keeping focused to make sure I made the bus back - inconveniently early afternoon or late afternoon... My feet, and their few blisters, felt tired and started cramping - the toes of the right foot being pulled back in sharp contractions isn't conducive for good walking.
The honesty shacks were again welcome oasis' - though I do despair that one has to have CCTV due to the amount of pillaging!
Plod, plod, plod goes the walk, trailing through Port Carlisle and then the finish...
Job done...
I had half an hour to find a tea shop before my bus - and couldn't, even the pub seemed closed. I had the entire bus to myself, a limo in stagecoach colours all the way back to Carlisle.
I didn't buy the t-shirt, mainly because I didn't like the one in the tourist information... but it is on order (from the people who run one of the honesty shacks from the day before - http://www.itrod.co.uk/hadrians-wall.php)
The maps from the GPS will be uploaded soon, especially as endomondo had a fit... I'll add in the kit review and my usual bits and bobs. But for now I need another long soak in a hot radox bath...
Wisi enim ad lectionem, quia ambulavit in septimanam
TTFN
Paul
But the day starts with end of Carlisle, and follows the Eden out, and out... There's little evidence of the wall, the odd section of the vallum and reused stonework in buildings. But it isn't unpleasant, just not the same as the soaring challenges as the days before.
The main challenge was keeping focused to make sure I made the bus back - inconveniently early afternoon or late afternoon... My feet, and their few blisters, felt tired and started cramping - the toes of the right foot being pulled back in sharp contractions isn't conducive for good walking.
The honesty shacks were again welcome oasis' - though I do despair that one has to have CCTV due to the amount of pillaging!
Plod, plod, plod goes the walk, trailing through Port Carlisle and then the finish...
Job done...
I had half an hour to find a tea shop before my bus - and couldn't, even the pub seemed closed. I had the entire bus to myself, a limo in stagecoach colours all the way back to Carlisle.
I didn't buy the t-shirt, mainly because I didn't like the one in the tourist information... but it is on order (from the people who run one of the honesty shacks from the day before - http://www.itrod.co.uk/hadrians-wall.php)
The maps from the GPS will be uploaded soon, especially as endomondo had a fit... I'll add in the kit review and my usual bits and bobs. But for now I need another long soak in a hot radox bath...
Wisi enim ad lectionem, quia ambulavit in septimanam
TTFN
Paul
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