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Hadrian’s Wall Way Day 3 - Haltwhistle to Tynemouth

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Although the campsite at Winshields was great and the Twice Brewed Inn fantastic, what there wasn’t was any phone signal or any Wi-Fi. As such the blog was more of a ball ache than usual to try and type on blogger, add photos and get everyone photos in one place to add. Frankie suggested I just type the text in Notes, save it and then copy and paste when we had some signal tomorrow. It seemed a plan, so with Andy feeling the cold, and it was chilly, he was tucked up in bed in a bid to get to sleep before the snoring monsters started either side of him as I sat up in bed typing the blog into notes. As you all know I know what I like and I like what I know so this change in routine slightly curtailed the creative juices but by just after midnight I’d banged out something like, and turned in just as the walrus with bronchitis like noises started emanating from the far side of the room… Still on Clyde walking time, I was awake by just after 6 so thought I’d try and walk round the camp site...
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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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