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Travel Blogs from Corbridge
Ready for Departure
As dusk descends, the promised monsoon rains have not quite materialised but it is cold and very windy. It's good to know we will in hot and sunny climes quite soon.
Luggage is nearly packed. Judith has been scouring the shops for suitable light clothing and we have vast quantities of medical items including insect repellents and malaria tablets.
No room for the cricket bat I'm afraid.
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Hexham - absolut eine Reise wert!
... Fort, eine Rekonstruktion aus neuerer Zeit. Die einzelnen Felder wurden auf Tafeln – teilweise in Deutsch – gut erklärt. Ein Gang durch das sehr modern gestaltete Museum beendete unseren Besuch dieser historischen Stätte.
Als nächsten Anlaufpunkt am „Hadrian’s Wall“ wählten wir „Cawfields Quarry“. Ein kleiner See – Vorsicht, sehr tief – eingebettet in eine wunderschöne Umgebung und felsengesäumte Landschaft ...
City of Bridges
... but also probably for customs and taxation checkpoints. It is 73 miles long (120 km). Walkers of Hadrian’s Wall start or end here in Newcastle. (In 2009 I walked some portions of it, up and down and up and down – challenging for me, but beautiful countryside.)
A "New Castle" was built in 1080 by the son of William the Conqueror on the site of an old Roman fort; and the still-standing Castle Keep was ...
Newcastle
... today was possibly the coldest so far, no rain, sun out but a dare say it didn't get over 6 degrees. Today we explored the city, it's not as well preserved with old fortifications like York but we did see the old gate tower that was the entrance to the old city but other then that there wasn't too much. Most of the buildings date back a hundred years or so and look amazing but nothing much older.
Day 155: Finally arrived in Scotland.
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An Introduction to My Travel Life...
... way or another. Whether it is collecting shells from the beach when you were a kid, accumulating hundreds of photo albums for your children and their children to see or collecting torn gig ticket stumps from all of your favourite bands, everything has a meaning and did and will have a purpose at some point. I have been lucky enough to see a lot of places in my life and ...
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Priorfield B&B
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Wheatsheaf
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Wheatsheaf Hotel
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2 The Crofts
Newcastle Road, Corbridge | 4 star b&bfrom $105 -
Fellcroft Bed And Breakfast
Station Road, Corbridge | B&B -
Matfen High House Bed and Breakfast
Corbridge | B&B -
Dilston Plains Bed & Breakfast
Dilston Plains off A695, Corbridge | 2 star b&b -
Prospect House
Corbridge | 4 star b&bfrom $83 -
Dilston Mill B&B
Dilston Mill, Corbridge | 4 star b&bfrom $150
