An easy but chill seven mile roll down the east side of the Pennines to breakfast in Alston....

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..then turning north towards Northumbria, Haltwhistle, and Hadrian's Wall...

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Me on Hadrian's Wall. If it appears sunny note that I am wet. It had just rained and my day would end a short time later in a deluge on a crowded, narrow "A" road seemed like mere inches from passing semis I weren't looking to stay in hotels but when one came along I took it.

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As one might expect, Hadrian's Wall, old as it is, exists only in scattered sections today, near Haltwhistle is a pretty good section along a ridge, here looking north towards the savage lands of the blue-painted Picts.

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