Right now I’m working on a novel about the Varus battle and Germanicus’ campaigns – A LAND UNCONQUERED – which is developing into a pretty epic mosnter, partly thanks to Arminius who insisted in getting a main role besides the fictive MCs. Sneaky German, lol. There could be a sequel or two, connected by an ongoing family feud, that will bring us to the Batavian rebellion and Mons Graupius. I have some ideas for those. Maybe Caerleon will feature in the third book as well.

I usually get pretty good weather when travaling in the UK – I had more rain when I toured the Rhine this spring. At least it was dry the day I spent in the Archaeological Park Xanten, but cold. The advantage was that there were few tourists around.

Germany has quite some Roman places as well. First along the Rhine which for a long time had been the border between the Roman provinces and ‘free Germania’. Those remains can mostly be found in towns that developed out of Roman ones (Xanten, Mainz, Cologne …. Trier at the Moselle and some places down at the Danube). Then there’s the Limes, a border that cuts from Frankfurt down to the Danube and provides us with a number of border forts and villas in the hinterland, the agri decumantes (it was the frontier between 83 AD and about 260). And there are the forts and supply camps from the time the Romans tried to conquer Germania (16BC-16AD): Haltern, Oberaden, Marktbreit, Hedemünden ….
Moreover, in 2008 a battlefield has been discovered not far from where I live and thus way deeper into Germany than anyone had suspected for a battle dating to the 3rd century AD (it’s most probably connected to Maximinus’ Thrax punitive campaign after the Alamanni overran the Limes).

No shortage of novel material here. *grin*

If nothing works, I’ll come over and get the book at Waterstones. *grin* (Wish I had the money to do two greater tours a year. There can’t be more rain in the UK than we have right now.)