Up, Up, Up and Away

 After a two week hiatus and a lot of feeling sorry for ourselves now we're back in the UK, we headed off again on Thursday morning for our next month or so of travelling!

Starting bright and early at 9am, unheard of for us, we hit the road from Sheffield on our way to Scotland. A quick stop off at the angel of the north which for us was towards the southern tip of our journey.

Our second stop-off was more substantial at Newcastle for 4 hours to catch some sights.

Craving some more Roman history before we headed into Scotland we visited the Great Northern Museum with its' creatively lit up Roman grave stones.

Also at the museum was a massive to-scale model of Hadrian's wall. I hope Hadrian's fears of violent people to the north doesn't come to pass for us...

Big 32 million year old bit of tree. Speaks for itself.

Wandering around the city and through its' chinatown we came across some of the remaining old city walls which were is a superb state of preservation, aside from the towers being full of beer cans.

Newcastle's new castle wasn't that new. Very funky example of a square keep castle though.

With the intention to put a couple more hours of driving behind us we headed off towards the border but accidentally kept going until very close to St Andrews. This made our first day of the trip into 6 and a half hours of driving, potentially the most in one day we've done in Moira so far.