Roman Roads are straight, or so I learned in school. Well, some are, but not the example that twists and turns through our hills here as viewed from Brena's back.
I imagine a travelling Roman engineer being teased by fellows. "What, you couldn't get this one straight, Claudius?" Then a bit later, "Hey, Tiberius, what is the Empire coming to now that the roads don't go in a line?" It must have become quite irritating for the more sensitive engineers.
Or perhaps it was straight only to be made curvy by the depredations and neglect of the Dark Ages?
But I think that completely straight Roman Roads are a bit of a myth other than the main highways, and the medieval Dark Ages are a modern construct too. ("The Romans were very clever then all that knowledge was forgotten until the Victorians came along." A nice try though - and a good excuse for lots of pretty classical architecture.)
Anyway the Romans seem to have left us with a good surface for this road is less rutted than many and drier too in wet weather. Besides, I love to ride along a way that has been travelled for a couple of millennia. It has history. It is the backdrop to memories. One cannot say that of any modern road. I do like this place.
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