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716 Roman England; Ottoman Turkey; Crossing Boundaries

Travel with Rick Steves

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The Roman Road to Britannia

There are opportunities to see Roman pavement stones that still have the chariot grooves in them. Lorraine, when I'm thinking about Britannia, that was the Roman word for Britain, right? Yes. There's one in the Lake District on High Street, which is a mountain that's over 2,000 feet. To think that 2,000 years ago the Romans had to build a road to that next valley and they went over that path. And you can still go to Bath for the therapeutic waters.

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