After a few sunny days in Scotland we crossed the border to rain. Now why does that not surprise me. Taking a back road we followed Hadrian’s Wall for some time then pulled in to a National Trust site at Housestead to visit the Roman Fort perched on top it. Only the foundations of the fort were left but many of the farmers stone walls nearby were curiously shaped as if masons had spent some time on them. We drove through some lovely country over hills to Cockermouth in Cumbria, stopping on the way at the Castlerigg Stone Circles erected on a hill surrounded by mountains on all sides. Those neolithic people sure knew a little about the importance of location to perform their ancient fertility rites.
“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson