Separated by a common language

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Hah!

Very good!

@orangutan said
The roads that pass Scafell pike are called Hardknott pass (going west with Scafell on the right) and Wrynose pass (going east with Scafell on the left) are among the steepest roads in the UK with gradients of 33%.

I cycled up Hardknott and down Wrynose - both horrible adventures - the first for being abominably hard to keep moving the latter for being abominably hard to stop moving!

Kudos. We had a hire car.

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I have occasionally thought of cycling LEJOG. I'm told it is done in that direction due to prevailing winds, but it seems to me the other way must be downhill.

@Earl-of-Trumps said
Hey,,, all I know is, If we (Yanks) didn't beat the Brits in the revolutionary war, we'd be speaking English today!

Well, you might be right.

You mean Oxford English, instead of the superior Webster English.

I suppose the King could have mandated Oxford English for the Colonies.

@moonbus said
In Ghost's case, it is called "Filthy Herman's goat."

Hahahahaha!

@moonbus said
Cockermouth lies 54-degrees N, whereas Hadrian's Wall lies 55-degrees N.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian's_Wall

quote:

Hadrian's Wall lies entirely within England and has never formed the Anglo-Scottish border, though it is sometimes loosely or colloquially described as such

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockermouth

Thanks! Interesting.

@Paul-Martin said
I just thought about you thinking about it ... and that was tiring enough!
Unless you're a pro that's 2 weeks+ isn't it?

And JOGLE would be cheating because as you say it's downhill all the way! ;D

Well, I'm 70 and retired, so the time factor is actually part of the attraction of it for me. Also, the weather gets drier as one does south, right? I mean, relative to the fact that Gt. Britain is an island in the Atlantic anyway ... 😆

@Suzianne said
Thanks! Interesting.

The Romans weren't dumb; they picked the narrowest place to build a wall clear across the island, 80 miles or so. Only bits are intact, but the whole path is marked on survey maps. I must have crossed its path at some point, but I didn't actually see any bits of it still standing. Gotta go back and walk the path someday; it's spectacular countryside.

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I stand corrected; there is a narrower place than where Hadrian's Wall ran across. It's astonishing that the Roman surveyors knew the shortest distances. I wonder how they did it, since they could not have had aerial views.

There is so much to see of ancient Britain. About three weeks ago, I drove through the Cotswolds and stopped at The Rollrights. It always gives me an indescribable feeling, those places. Kind of spooky but also tranquil.

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My soul is stateless and the state is soulless. 😆

Anglophile, naturalised Swiss.

@moonbus said
My soul is stateless and the state is soulless.

Nice! Well said.

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We started in Kendal and then rode over the passes to Ravenglass.
Then in the morning set out from Ravenglass to Tynemouth following the Hadrians wall route over three days.

One morning we set out from the pub we'd lodged at, getting all our kit secured to the bikes and a couple also emerged from the pub and started getting their bags ready. A taxi pulled up and they handed their bags to the driver, who was going to drop them at their next stop.
Me and my mate just looked at each other - "is that allowed?"