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  Well, We Did It                                                                 Linda at the highest point on the walk We completed the Hadrian’s Wall walk without any casualties. The first few days were pretty demanding, averaging about fifteen miles a day. Indeed at the end of the first day, we wondered whether we had bitten off more than we could chew. Also, in our hotel room, the door of the ensuite bathroom fell off its hinges. Never a dull moment. I walk more slowly than Linda, and you can’t go for fifteen miles at someone else’s pace, so we came to an arrangement that Linda would wait for me to catch up every half mile or so. My excuse is that I am four years older than her, but in fact she has always gone faster than me. She reminds me of what they say about Hungarians- they go in...