Twice brewed

Todays walk:21 km
Time used:6.5 hours
Blisters:none
Breakfast:excellent
Lunch:acceptable
Weather:english
Bad knees:1 (Davinder)

First about the bad knee. A combination of fatness and age caused Davinders knee to break down, according to him.

A lot of up and down today, but sadly we are still talking about walking. And the wall was visible next to large parts of the track. We ate our lunch inside an old roman milecastle. These small castles could be found every mile, and was were the locals were allowed through to sell their merchandises.

They say people have taken the stones from the wall to create houses and so on, but there were nearly no houses were we walked today, so it is a bit strange the wall has more or less disappeared. I had to find the reason. And it was not far away. Our guidebook tells us that some english general decided to build a road from Newcastle to Carlisle in 1754, and what was more natural than to build large parts of it on top of the wall. That explains why we've been walking so close to a road large parts this far...

We've checked into a B&B now, and will go to a pub called "Twice brewed" to celebrate new years eve. There is another pub not far called "Once brewed". The creativeness in this region, at least when it comes to naming pubs, doesn't seem to be impressive. Hopefully the creativeness when it comes to making the food will be better, although I will not be surprised if the menu says Dish one, Dish two, etc.

The mobile networks might be overloaded later on tonight, so we use this opportunity to wish all our readers a happy new year!