On the road...

[suzyscottdotcom]

As Caroline mentioned in her previous diary updates, her mother was admitted to hospital while she was in Spain (initially Ninewells, now Arbroath Infirmary). Caroline wanted to visit her, as well as other family members. After working out costs, we’ve hired out a car – I initially may have said by texts that is a Vectra, well it’s a Vauxhall Corsa, petrol, manual, 57 plate, from 1car1.com at Newmarket Road Cambridge. Here is Caroline getting used to the controls in the car park of Roysia Surgery/Stearns Pharmacy while I went to pick up my repeat prescription…


… and then we drove via the A1/M1 (stopping at Trowel services), M62 (I asked to stop at Birch for the loo, but didn’t buy anything else), then M6, and see how far north we could get. Well, we’re staying the night at Westmorland Hotel (aka Tebay)… here’s Caroline checking out the Kendal Mint Cake that she found on the table when we got here…


She’s just left the bath, so I’ll leave the (complimentary, btw!) wi-fi for now, and go see her.

Comments

[jennyemily.livejournal.com]

Heh. I stopped for three quarters of an hour just a few hundred yards from you then - I parked up there on my way to Carlisle for a break.

[suzyscottdotcom.livejournal.com]

He he!

When I worked at Lynx, we had a driver which left Dundee around 1800, drove a unit and trailer to Tebay, and then swapped trailers with the driver who brought the one from the hub at Nuneaton, before returning. Seems like ages ago now - ten years.

I'd stopped here in the coach on the way to see C (southbound) many times, and also once on the northbound (where we are at, as you know) on the way from Brum to Dundee a few years back.

[thebustocrookes.livejournal.com]

I've found the Chatteris leaflets in the big box of goodies - you win! Highlight of the day :-)

(the other stuff doesn't look bad too! - will keep reading tonight...)

Hope the trip goes well, best wishes to Caroline and her mother

[suzyscottdotcom.livejournal.com]

Hi Dougie.

Well, seeing as how you liked the song about the place (by Half Man Half Biscuit), I thought you'd like the tourist bumph about the p lace too!

Thanks from us both, hope you and your Caroline are doing well.

Sxxx