Posted on 05/31/2020 12:27:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Time Team host Tony Robinson embarks on a final trek along one of Britain's ancient by-ways. This time, having previously travelled along a Bronze Age trackway, he turns his attention to a relatively modern route. Originally a Roman road, Dere Street stretched from York through to the Central Belt of Scotland, but its Roman name has been lost to history.
Trekking The Roman Road To Scotland | Ancient Tracks | Timeline | Published on May 31, 2020
Where the sun shines on Loch Lomond.
Where me and tea tree my true love spent many days
On the banks of Loch Lomond.
Too sad we parted in yon shady glen,
On the steep sides of Ben Lomond.
Where the broken heart knows no second spring,
Resigned we must be while we’re parting.
You’ll take the high road and I’ll take the low road,
And I’ll be in Scotland afore you.
Where me and my true love will never meet again,
On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.
Are there any looters on the road? Too bad there wasn’t a few Roman Legions around anymore to tackle the anarchists. Slice, impale and behead first...and asking questions afterward isn’t necessary.
Took a bus tour of the British Isles in 2006. We stopped on the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond, and by the time we all got off the bus to take pictures, the fog had quickly rolled in, and that was that.
By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes
where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond
Where me and my true lover were ever want to gae
on the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond
It was there that we parted in yon shady glen
on the steep, steep banks of Ben Lomond
Where in the purple hue, the Highland hills we viewed
and the moon coming out of the gloaming
Now the wee birdies sing and the wild flowers spring
and in sunshine still waters are sleeping
But broken hearts kens nae, second spring again
though the waefall may cease fray its greeting
You take the high road and I’ll take the low road
And I’ll be in Scotland afore ye
But me and my true love will never meet again
on the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond
:^) There wasn't enough around to loot, thanks to centuries of tribal lawlessness and petty kings' power squabbles.
Nice little video. Thanks for sharing.
Until the 20th Century, the best roads on earth for 2,000 years were still the old Roman roads.
Cool version!
Well that’s a rip!
:^)
Tony really gets off on walking one of the last un-tarmacked stretches of it, and one of his guest walkers points out that same idea. :^)
My pleasure. And it's pretty much brand new apparently.
(quoted a bit during the video)O Caledonia! stern and wildOh Caledonia, stern and wild,
by Sir Walter Scott
Meet nurse for a poetic child!
Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,
Land of the mountain and the flood,
Land of my sires! What mortal hand
Can e'er untie the filial band
That knits me to thy rugged strand?
Still as I view each well-known scene,
Think what is now, and what hath been,
Seems as, to me, of all bereft,
Sole friends, thy woods and streams were left;
And thus I love them better still,
Even in extremity of ill.
By Yarrow's stream still let me stray,
Though none should guide my feeble way;
Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break
Although it chill my withered cheek;
Though there, forgotten and alone,
The bard may draw his parting groan.
Well, at least some folks from Australia got to witness their first snow fall while we were in the Scottish Highlands. They'd never seen snow before, and they asked the guide if they could stop the bus to get pictures because their friends wouldn't believe them without proof. So the bus stopped, and they got off the bus to take pictures of themselves standing in the snowfall.
LOL
I wonder what they would think about ice fishing.
Snow on Hadrian’s Wall: https://vimeo.com/9400074
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