Saturday May 31
After staying at Keswick in the Lakes District ( where I caught up for a chat with workmate Rob Ellis from City of Melb.) I headed north to Carlisle and then east out to Greenhead where there is a fantatastic section of Hadrians Wall. The area know as Walltown has one of the highest sections of the wall, built along the top on a escarpment. The Romans considered this as far north as civilisation went, the Scots say they couldn't make it any further. The wall stretched 80 miles from coast to coast.
From there I headed west and north into Scotland, thru Dumfries and down to Castle Douglas where I stayed the night and in the morning had a 'full scottish breakfast'..... haggis and all! Sort of like a pale spicy black pudding.
Bike's still running well, a few issues are showing up. Discovered a crack in the panniers mounts this morning, should get me to the Isle of man where some final maintainance will be undertaken.
1 comment:
Hi Paul
Glad your ok now and that your bike is sorted. Pity about the disc and bearings. Oh well. have a good time on the island and hopefully we will meet up again just after you leave for the big ride.
Regards
Chris
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