We left York today (our hotel was next door to York Downs) horse race course. We traveled to Durham and saw the cathedral they filmed Harry Potter in. It was built in1038!
Next up was Hadrians Wall built by the Romans in 289 AD to keep the Picts out. The Picts is another name for Painted People or Scotts. Think Blue Paint and Braveheart. It was 15 feet high and 10 feet thick but now its about 3 feet high and 1 foot thick. As you look around you can find houses and churches built from stone. Gee I wonder where the stone came from??
We then walked down the street to a pub called The Swan. Kay and I had our first 1/2 pint of ale. Warm and strong, only had about two swigs. So much for being scottish.
Next we drove the country roads to Scotland, I never saw so many sheep in my life. We watched Border Collies rounding up the herd and saw acres of green rolling hills with babbling brooks filled with salmon. Every now and then a castle or old stone cottag would pop up. As we came over the ridge a big stone was engraved Scotland and a man in a kilt was standing there playing the bag pipes. There was nothing around on the old road but him but it was bloody jolly!
Ate dinner with the group on the North Sea overlooking a bridge that looked like the Golden Gate.
Tomorrow its a tour of Edinburgh and the royal yacht Brittania.
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