July 2023

Still in Skye!

Not just any rock, a rock on the Isle of Skye

And then it’s off to Haltwhistle… via Glencoe… where we had been only a few days before…

An aerial view of our friends Bobby and Drift sporting their bad weather jackets

Looking up the valley from the campsite in Glencoe

Spotted as we walked from Glencoe back to our campsite

The views from the campsite in Glencoe are good

And, at long last, we reach Haltwhistle

A walk through the woods at the Haltwhistle campsite

At Haltwhistle campsite. We didn’t go up there

Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort (castrum) just south of Hadrian’s Wall in northern England, which it pre-dated. Archaeological excavations of the site show it was under Roman occupation from roughly 85 AD to 370 AD.

Located near the modern village of Bardon Mill in Northumberland, it guarded the Stanegate, the Roman road from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth. It is noted for the Vindolanda tablets, a set of wooden leaf-tablets that were, at the time of their discovery, the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain.

Reference; Wikipedia