{"id":1865,"date":"2013-04-04T12:31:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T11:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2013-04-04T12:31:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T11:31:05","slug":"along-the-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/along-the-frontier","title":{"rendered":"Along the frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After our Holy Island trip I had 2 days of Outdoor First Aid training, to renew my OFA certificate for another 3 years.\u00a0 The course was delivered by Dave Jones at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspirationaltraining.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Inspirational Training<\/a> and was a lot of fun &#8211; even the outdoor casualty scenarios on the second day in a brutally cold, howling easterly wind!\u00a0 A very pleasant surprise was finding myself on the same training course as one of my former pupils, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climbgb.com\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Hopper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What came next was something of a departure from my routine work, as I guided a TV research team along Hadrian&#8217;s Wall for five days.\u00a0 After visiting numerous archaeological sites, museums, cafes, castles and pubs during the week there was one highlight that stood out above all others;\u00a0 The team were looking around the Housesteads Roman Fort while I sat in the car, re-arranging our activities for the following day.\u00a0 I was just starting to think that they&#8217;d been gone for quite a while when my mobile started ringing; &#8220;Martin, it&#8217;s Nic.\u00a0 We&#8217;re walking to Steel Rigg.&#8221;\u00a0 I drove to Steel Rigg, made sure I was well wrapped up and started walking towards Housesteads to meet up with them on the path above Sycamore Gap.\u00a0 With several inches of snow beside the path, a bitingly-cold easterly wind and frequent snow showers, it was a glorious afternoon to be walking along the Roman Wall with outstanding views over the North Pennines, <em><strong>Jackdaws<\/strong> <\/em>tossed in the wind like black leaves, <em><strong>Curlews<\/strong> <\/em>wandering aimlessly on snow-covered meadows and faint snatches of <em><strong>Meadow Pipit<\/strong><\/em> song carried on the breeze.\u00a0 whatever the weather, Northumberland&#8217;s still outstanding \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After our Holy Island trip I had 2 days of Outdoor First Aid training, to renew my OFA certificate for another 3 years.\u00a0 The course was delivered by Dave Jones at Inspirational Training and was a lot of fun &#8211; even the outdoor casualty scenarios on the second day in a brutally cold, howling easterly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[172,571,382,207],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pennines","category-northumberland","tag-curlew","tag-hadrians-wall","tag-jackdaw","tag-meadow-pipit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1866,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/1866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}