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Message:: [QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 24700350, member: 128351"]This summer I've been hiking along Hadrian's Wall in North England, from Wallsend (East of Newcastle) to Bowness-on-Solway (that's West of Carlisle). [ATTACH=full]1577374[/ATTACH]At Wallsend, ancient Segedunum, the Metro station has bilingual signs [ATTACH=full]1577373[/ATTACH]West of Newcastle the trash boxes are adorned with sestertii of Hadrian [ATTACH=full]1577375[/ATTACH]At Corbridge the soil has moved a lot since the Romans left [ATTACH=full]1577376[/ATTACH]In a Mithra Temple along the wall, visitors are still making (modest) offerings. That's not Rome's Trevi Fountain, but the spirit is the same. [ATTACH=full]1577377[/ATTACH]On a hill top, the course of the wall is interrupted by a huge Roman camp [ATTACH=full]1577378[/ATTACH]One of the famous milecastles, which monitored circulation through the wall between the Empire and the Barbaricum. [ATTACH=full]1577379[/ATTACH]Some Roman coins from the camp of Vindolanda, finely restored and on display at the local museum [ATTACH=full]1577380[/ATTACH]of course that's British Weather... ;-) [ATTACH=full]1577381[/ATTACH]At Bowness-on-Solway, after a 140 km walk, plus detours to visit a couple nearby forts or Roman towns, you eventually come to a simple cabin that marks the end of the journey.[/QUOTE]