Time for another pint methinks, must be Bob's round, mine's a Wolf

Not sure if I like Allendale's new branding artwork on their beers![]()
Regards NeilI much prefer this
to this
Day 5 done, Next Leg Day 6 Alston to Bellingham including a bit of Hadrians Wall.
Main Towns and Villages Alston Haltwhistle, Vindolanda, Hadrians wall walk, Military Road, Chollerford, Wark, Bellingham If we arrive early enough at Bellingham some canoeing on the River Tyne is possible particularly if we book in at the Riverdale Hall Hotel.
For the Pennine Cycleway purist this deviates from the Route 68, which would take a circuitous route through a bit of forest offroading. For me a Northumberland coniferous forest with rough forest roads is the same as any other forest anywhere else but Hadrians wall is a world heritage site so my route follows the military road right alongside it. On top of that its a scenic ride by the side of the North Tyne all the way up from Chollerford to Bellingham missed out by the forest diversion.
I've never actually been to Vindolanda, but one of the most interesting aspects of the 2000 ish year old Hadrians Wall, is not so much the bits of stone that are left, but the discovery of first-hand accounts through written artefacts and vindolanda is the site for that type of thing..
Regards NeilThe map of the route if you choose the overlay on the OS map on the Sustrans Site can take it down to a very detailed level.
https://www.sustrans.org.uk/find-a-rout ... /route-68/
Pennine Cycleway Quiz Questions Day 6 Number 1
Where is the Border between Northumberland and Cumbria on the Pennine Cycleway out of Alston?
What is the Name of the Pele tower Next to it on the Cumbria side and what is a Pele Tower?
and I would suggest that at the appropriate point on the way to Haltwhistle we park the Bikes and take a short walk to Langley Viaduct and take a photo and enjoy the view from the top.Pennine Cycleway Quiz Questions Day 6 Number 2
There is an interesting Church at Kirkhaugh. It has a very pointy spire.
It is almost unique, some say none, but there is actually one other, a church in Hom Green Herefordshire which shares something with Kirkhaugh Church although they are very different architecturally. What is this![]()
The short answer to that is of course not! Pleased you can bail me out! Still with my revised route there may be a climb up to the Military Road next to Hadrians Wall out of Haltwhistle, but Alston to Haltwhistle is downstream all the way. You could even have canoed it