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Last Night for the Van


We have visited some more very interesting places in the past 2 days.

Yesterday we left our site at Stockton-on-Tees and headed to see the Segedunum Roman Fort and Museum. This was our choice to try and see some of Hadrian’s Wall before leaving England.
 
The wall stretched across the country


Model of what was here


The museum was pretty cool with lots of display of items that had been found while the old fort was being excavated. The fort was at the far eastern end of Hadrian’s Wall, and is interestingly called “Walls End” 😊
 
Part of what's left of the wall.


The ruin area is quite large and while there is no actual buildings still standing the locations of the buildings are outlined with stones.
There is only a small part of the wall left, but it was cool to actually see it.


From there we headed off, left England and crossed back into Scotland. 

Our destination was the lovely town of Melrose. Our van park was right in the middle of town, so we were able to go for a quick walk to check things out.


This gorgeous Abbey is also in town, alas it was closed.

We continued to wander around town, and finally found somewhere that served Haggis, Neeps and Tatties. It was a lovely pub, the staff were amazing and we had a lovely meal out.
Mixed reactions regarding the Haggis, which kind of tastes like stuffing.


This morning we left Melrose this morning and were a little unfortunate to have a police escort for most of our journey. This is because they were escorting a very large oversized machine on a truck. I was pleased we were behind it, as it seemed a little safer than trying to get past it. Once it had to stop and they tried to get it past a semi coming the other way. Not sure the trucks were happy with receiving instructions to put his truck in the scrub.

We finally turned off from behind the police and headed for Roslin, to visit the Rosslyn Chapel.


The carvings inside the chapel are amazing. Alas no photos are allowed inside the chapel itself. We were lucky to arrive just in time for a verbal presentation from one of the members of the trust who works there. Such an amazing history.



Rosslyn Chapel Famous from Dan Brown Book Da Vinci Code

We left there and have now arrived back in Edinburgh. Spending our last night in the van before we hand it back tomorrow and head for a motel for a few days.

All for now lovelies,

Stay safe and keep enjoying life.

Love us.

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