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mitchy ([personal profile] mitchy) wrote2006-09-18 08:25 pm

Travel woes

We didn't make it to Bath.

*sighs*

What we did get was 2 and a half hours in a solid traffic jam on the A1(M) with no option to bail out and find another route until the outside lane traffic finally cleared and I could haul the car out of the standstill that was the inside lane (queuing for the M25 junction) and head south to where I could turn round and go back North.

I was not a happy mousey.

Over a vast cooked breakfast in Little Chef, [livejournal.com profile] jenni411 and I decided that we just couldn't face another 2 hours in the car driving to Bath, especially as we were hearing on the radio the M25 was slow anti-clockwise. So we bailed. We've lost the hotel room but it was half the cost of what I'd have used in petrol to get there, plus parking fees, so eh, what the hell.

Instead we spent a very happy afternoon pottering around the Veralamium museum, Roman Theatre and bath house mosaic in St Albans :) Much more fun!

And now [livejournal.com profile] jenni411 is baking apple and walnut cake. Life is good again!
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[identity profile] halcyon-shift.livejournal.com 2006-09-18 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww :( Yay that there was salvaging of the trip, though :)

[identity profile] mitchy.livejournal.com 2006-09-18 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay for salvage :) And now I'm trying to figure out how to mail you and Doccy slices of apple 'n' walnut cake :D

[identity profile] trampledamage.livejournal.com 2006-09-18 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahh... Little Chef... I don't care what people say, Little Chef restaurants have been the saviours of many a cross-country (literally... Stranraer to Leicester) trip!

[identity profile] mitchy.livejournal.com 2006-09-18 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Little Chef are the business, 's true :) All others are but pale imitations :)

[identity profile] alissomora.livejournal.com 2006-09-19 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
Bummer :( I remember Bath and totally loved it -- it's one of the first places I want to visit when I can :D

[identity profile] mitchy.livejournal.com 2006-09-19 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Remind me when, exactly, you're gracing these shores?

[identity profile] alissomora.livejournal.com 2006-09-19 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm leaving Oz in May to go to the US for a month or so, so will be arriving mid to late June. My sister will fly out in June to co-incide with my arrival. Our most pressing matter right now is to find somewhere to stay that will take our cats.