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Hadrians Wall Way Day 2 - Silloth to Haltwhistle

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After pulling it round in the afternoon yesterday, and providing us with quite the most magnificent Air B&B in Silloth, No 4 Marine Terrace with our own rooms and our own grand sitting room where I was able to write the blog late into the night, Frankie was out of the doghouse! Waking to the sunshine streaming in through the window at about 8, I was first one down stairs to be met by Shaun our host to a simple breakfast of toast tea and cereals, shortly to be followed by Andy, Frankie and Maggie their bearded collie who I had become firm friends with sat by my side waiting for a scrap or 2!  Breakfast polished off and it was time for ablutions and a quick pack of the bags to get down to Dec’s hotel for 9am and the 70ish mile route Frankie had planned (oh god…) following the official Hadrians Wall way to near Haltwhistle. Mark Noble is joining us today at some point, so it’ll be lovely to see his skinny bony arse sheltering me and the others for at least some of the da...
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Hadrian’s Wall Way - Day 1 Ravenglass to Silloth

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It’s that time again! After the absolute carnage of my jaunt to North Wales earlier in the year, I’ve decided I can’t be trusted out on my own for now, so decided to invite myself along on Frankie’s long planned trip across Hadrian’s Wall Way from Ravenglass in Cumbria across the top of England finishing in Tynemouth 3 days later, a jaunt of 170 miles or so mostly on quiet roads and bike paths. We’ll get to that anon…🤣 joining us early doors is Frankie’s biking buddy from Manchester Andy “the whippet” Francis, who is in for a proper baptism of fire as his normal routine is smashing round the Manchester hills at 18mph usually with Frankie and occasionally me, left floundering in his wake! Let’s see if we can break him and bring him down to our level over the 3 days! With Frankie doing all the organising, route (just you wait for this…) train times, dates and places to stay, and the route being at least partially in the North East, other interlopers from the previous debacle’s will be j...
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