Today we had a walk around the Falkirk Wheel and on to Antonine’s Wall. The path is easy going and as we had a mix up getting boots and waterproofs, it was ideal as a last minute choice. All the local walks we have done, and are doing, have been checked out for Risks and Timings, to fit in with the timetable.

The scale of the Roman Wall is difficult to show in photos, it’s pretty massive when you actually walk along the top. We were lucky when one of the class said they heard a Woodpecker, we stopped and listened carefully, trying to plot where it was. We never saw it but heard it drilling away, magical. The old mature Acorns and Oaks may be prime territory for the wee headbangers……

Reading the interpretation boards, trying to visualise a few hundred scary Picts running up the wall towards us……

The class checking out the Roman and Picts sides of the Ancient wall.