New York - New York. 2010

In 120 AD, emperor Hadrian got tired of the Scotts raiding the province of Britannia and decided to build a wall across England. So he did, and it still stands today. It is very cool to see and to realize that it has been around for 2000 years. So, we like cool things, and we went there, hiked to the higest point, and walked almost 10k along the wall. Walking along the wall, we run in to a guy doing repairwork to the wall. We start up a discussion and find out he has been doing this for 30 some years. In fact that was the only thing he had done. He had lots to tell about the area and the economic importance today for the local business. ithout the wall there would be nothing besides farming here.

Then we found a local pub wich was extremly neat. Not as cool as Hadrian´s but still very neat.

Got off the ferry this morning, did not even get to the passport control, then it starts to rain. Seems like it will be the story of this trip. However, it lightened up and turned out to be a great day with a pint of beer after the wall-hiking-thing.
Cool day wich ended with a B&B at a great location.

We came off the boat in northern Germany at around 7am. Had almost 600k to Amsterdam and next port for the ferry to Newcastle. Looked forward to booooring transportation riding. Turned out to be nothing of the sort. It came to be an endurance test and a test of why the hell are we doing this on our vacation?? First half was OK, second half was some of the worst riding Håkan had done and by far the worst Henriette had done. Pooring rain, downpour, sideways rain, galeforce winds sideways, cold, wet and we needed to push on, did not have time to stop and wait it out. No fun whatsoever.

Made it to the ferry in Ijmuiden, outside Amsterdam with time to spare. Got on the boat and realized that the pleasent ferryride might not be so pleasant with the wind making whitewater already in port. However, after a beer and some dinner things turned for the better. Early night and had the luxury of sleeping in since we did not dock until 10am.