On: The Beautiful Network of Ancient Roman Roads (2015...

[superb-owl]

I recently came across a piece of a Roman road while hiking the Pyrenees. Astounding to see something that old, and to realize just how far the Roman empire extended.

[Lio → superb-owl]

I was riding Peddar’s Way[1] in England last year.

It was an old Roman road but I was told by someone on the trail it actually dates back to pre-Roman Britain.

That blew my mind. To walk or ride roads so old and yet so unchanged.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peddars_Way

[trhway → Lio]

The quality of Roman road construction was very good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_roads#Via_munita