Our Walk Along Hadrian's Wall Path

“Where ever you are, be there totally.”   Eckhart Tolle   An Early Morning and a Late Start   Yesterday had introduced to Hadrian’s Wall in fragments.   At Wallsend, we had found archaeology, signs, and interpretation. Through Newcastle-upon-Tyne, we had followed the memory of the Wall beneath a modern city layered with shipyards, bridges, roads, and Victorian industrial history. At Heddon-on-the-Wall, we had finally been able to touch a surviving   section of the Roman structure, only to be driven onward by rain, cost, and the lack of available accommodation. By the time we reached the Robin Hood Inn, soaked and exhausted, we had already walked what many would consider two stages of Hadrian’s Wall Path.   Today, we hoped it would lead us to a different experience. According to the guidebook, this next stretch would bring us more fully into the functioning frontier of Roman Britain. Milecastles, turrets, forts, the Vallum, more surviving sections of the Wal...