Hadrians wall

Brett and I are currently chilling in a guest house room after a busy few days. Last night we spent the night in a barn camp. It was created for walkers and backpackers who were on an adventure across hadrians wall. We had the bunk barn to ourselves and we were literally in the roof of a barn in bunk beds. It was cosy, cheap, quaint and served us well. Brett and I had been driving along the road searching for Hadrian's wall and had only come across a small section on our own. It was incredibly impressive, but i really wanted to see more. We followed signs to a roman fort and some extremely helpful people at the counter directed us to greencart farm which provided b&b's, backpacker and camper accommodation. This property was about a 10 minute walk from much more of hadrians wall. It was amazing. The wall was built around 122AD and was the northern most boundary of the Roman Empire. The section we saw was actually the most northern piece that still remained. It was supposed to be built around three meters wide, but in parts was only around 2, which was still bloody impressive, given how long it had survived and that it spanned around 120km. Brett and I spent around 2 hours walking along the wall, with beautiful countryside views and so close to cows we could touch them. It was the most surreal mix of old and new. There was a misty fog over the land and it was around sunset so there was crisp fresh air surrounding us. It was such an experience which really made me feel alive.

This morning we drove along some of Hadrians wall as throughout time they had actually used some of the wall to create the existing roads... This helped to explain why we couldn't always find it when we were driving around. Brett and I continued our adventure and drive to Edinburgh, Scotland. We got out to take touristy photos of the boarder as we crossed from England. We then got caught in a bit of a storm and the rain came bucketing down. Brett was great at driving through the storm and got us here safe and sound. We chilled in the room for a while, grabbed some dinner then set out on an underground ghost Tour. We saw some arches that had been buried over time and heard about how the undesirable people were put here. They were made of stones and housed between 10,000-20,000 people. Originally they were built as the substructures of the south bridge and to make money they created them into vaults to store people's goods such as whiskey. The only problem was that they leaked liquid lime into the vaults which ruined the food, drink and supplies. They then decided housing people would be a better idea... We heard about people snatchers and other awful things that happened to people. People who had the plague or women who were pregnant out of wedlock were put here. The tour was kinda lame but at least we got to see something interesting.