We walked from the site to Hadrian's Wall today. First we had to get to Haltwhistle, which was about a 2 mile walk along the River South Tyne.
From Haltwhistle is was still about another 2 miles uphill to reach Hadrian's Wall. We arrived at Milecastle 42 (Cawfields).
We then walked east along the wall. There's quite a lot of uphill and downhill, and there are milecastles every Roman mile (1.48 km). It was quite cool and windy, with the occasional shower too.
Eventually we reached Sycamore Gap, which was a sad sight to see. It's sprouting at the base but it's obvious it'll never be the same again.
We carried on walking east. Since the wind behind us was quite strong we decided to keep walking as far as we could, then get the 3pm bus back to Haltwhistle.
We didn't quite have time to get to Housesteads Fort, but we made it to the bus stop in plenty of time. Unfortunately the bus didn't show up! We had no alternative but to walk back along the main road, which wasn't particularly pleasant.
The bus eventually passed us about 40 minutes late, but we weren't in a position where we could flag it down. Instead we walked as far as the Twice Brewed Inn, which was about 2 miles along the road.
We had a drink there and waited for the 5pm bus, which fortunately showed on time and took us back to Haltwhistle.
In the town we went for another drink at the Black Bull pub, down a lane off the main street in the centre.
We decided not to walk the 2 miles back to the site, and took a taxi instead.
Later for dinner we had chilli and rice that we'd brought with us.
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