Part 9 Round the isle UK trip Hadrian's Wall and Hand and Flower (Revisiting Travels)

livinguktaiwan (74)in GEMS • 5 years ago

公元122年羅馬帝國一位君主來到英國時，命令人民建一道防衛牆以防止蠻夷入侵。這個命令大家今年有印像聽過類似的嗎？😊 這個君主是哈德良，而這道牆是哈德良長城，是現今英國最完整的古羅馬帝國城牆。我們離開愛丁堡後下一站就是這裏

In AD122 a Roman emperor arrived to England and ordered a wall to be built to keep out the barbarians。 Sounds familiar from earlier this year? 😊 The emperor was Hadrian and the wall is called the Hadrian’s Wall, the most famous frontier of the Roman empire in Britain today。 This is where we stayed after we left Edinburgh。

跟其他我們遊歴的地點一樣，我們在這裡也租住民宿。而這間民宿以前是一間電話交換機樓，所以方圓四周都沒有其他建築物。

Like most of our other accommodation, we stayed at a B&B which used to be an old telephony repeater station, hence its location is in the middle of nowhere。

_{Credit : The Old Repeater Station}

現在很多人都會沿著這一百三十五公里的哈德良長城，步行或踏單車從英國的東面走到西面。我們當然沒有這麽多時間及精力行畢全程，所以選擇在附近行了一小段長城，也總算是到此一遊過！

A lot of people nowadays walk or cycle along the entire 135km Hadrian’s wall which stretches east to west across England。 Of course, we didn’t have either the time nor the stamina to do this and opted to walk a small section so we could claim we’ve been there and done it!

那天天氣濕濕的，所以我們只走了幾公里到附近一個遊客中心，然後民宿主人非常熱心地說可以來接我們，不用在雨中再步行回去。

That day was quite wet and rainy, we only walked a few miles to a nearby visitor center and then called the B&B owner who had kindly offered to pick us up back to the B&B to save us walking in the rain。

哈德良長城是我們英倫環島遊最後一個郊外地點，之後我們到約克郡及牛津郡。牛津郡附近Cotswold 有很多很漂亮及別緻的小村莊，星期六那一天我們駕著車跳村，到Burford及 Bourton-on-the-Water (它被很多人譽為英國最漂亮的村莊)，然後在Stow-on-the-Wold來一個傳統的英式下午茶。

Hadrian Wall was the last rural stop of our journey and next we continued back down south to our last two stops York and Oxfordshire, both which are famous beautiful locations in England。 In Oxfordshire, there are many beautiful little villages at the nearby Cotswold and we spent the Saturday village hopping at Burford, Bourton-on-the-Water (voted by many as one of the prettiest villages in England) and finally stopping at Stow-on-the-Wold for afternoon tea。

最後一晚我們去一間米芝蓮二星的餐廳 The Hands and Flowers，慶祝我們完成英倫環島遊。這一間餐廳，在一個叫做Marlow的小村莊，位於泰晤士河邊離開倫敦以西約有53公里。

On the last evening, we celebrated our round the UK trip with dinner at a two Michelin stars pub called The Hands and Flowers, a booking that I had made a whole year ago! The pub is in Marlow, a lovely village on the River Thames around 53km west of London。

餐廳非常受歡迎所以我在一年前已經訂了座位。其實當時我訂位根本不知道自己一年之後會在哪裏，更加沒想過我會辭了工作及離開英國。結果在機緣巧合之下，這一頓精彩的晚餐，正好為我們這三個星期多的環島遊畫上完美的句號。

When I made the reservation, I had absolutely no idea what I would be doing a year later, and certainly had not thought that I would be quitting my job to leave the UK。 As it turns out, the timing couldn't be more perfect to round off our three week road trip with a fantastic meal。