First port of all was a Tesco, where I did some shopping, including some peaches and nectarines which were £1.29 a punnet if you didn't have a club card, and only 49p if you did. Rude not to, really!
We nipped into Scotland, slightly as a protest about people from Manchester not being allowed ("How would they know?" asked the Swan Whisperer, and, indeed, nobody tried to stop us). We went past Coldstream and Kelso to Jedburgh, where the SW had a peep at the Abbey.
We decided to go and have a look at Hadrian's Wall, and stopped off at a few places. The trouble is, I was - and am - very tired today, so didn't feel able to walk much, and all the sites were a long way from the car park except the first, which charged £9.00 to go in and so difficult to know whether it was all open or only part of it. So we didn't go in, but we did see quite a lot of the Wall just driving along, and here is a rather distant view of Housesteads.
We then drove on south a bit to this campsite outside Durham, which we shall visit tomorrow. The Swan Whisperer has gone for a walk and to explore public transport options - there is a P&R not far away but it is yet to be determined whether one can walk there. The SW has just come back and says not, so we will take the van over.
We have had very beautiful scenery today; I always say nowhere is as beautiful as Sussex, but Northumbria and the Borders run it pretty close!
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