Metro station at Walls End:
According to Google Translate, it means “state of station wagons,” from which we learn two things: 1) Google Translate should never be relied upon and 2) If you are looking for the busses and do not know Latin, you are in trouble. Well, OK, the picture of a bus is a pretty good clue!
Now, this sign has some heft!
Slow news day today as most of the 17 or so miles was essentially along a bicycle path.
This fish out of water looks awfully happy considering it is a fish out of water, unless we are to imagine otherwise since he has a few marine friends close by:
The same two bridges at Newcastle that you saw yesterday only seen from the opposite direction:
Reflection of bridge and a bit of that music venue building:
Hadrian’s Wall is a popular walk, doable in either direction, which means signage is good and you do see other people from time to time. Not a friendly ambience, though, as was the Coast to Coast, e.g.
Too early to get up (for some):
Left the wall today (not that there was any wall that I could see) five miles or so short of my destination to deviate to Corbridge and Hexham because I would have felt as if I had really missed something had I not passed through these two towns. It was a nice change of scenery and Corbridge is adorable though I did not linger long there.
Visited the Roman town in Corbridge, but I have a terrible confession to make. I don’t love looking at these kinds of ruins, so after a Magnum, I slinked away. And that was a good thing because I did not realise how many more miles I still had left to walk. (20.5 in toto)
Sculpture of a lion devouring its prey. What is noteworthy is that the sheep or goat or whatever is bigger than the lion. Maybe there is a deep thought there or a proverb or something, or maybe not:
Grandma Goes Coastal 