Sunday, April 19, 2009

The things we do ....


Yesterday we took Emma back to her college - in Leeds!
It looked doable on the map - sort of - so Tess added in a stopover at Stratford-on-Avon.
The British Road System - Part 1
Tess is navigator and has discovered how vast is the network of roads criss-crossing this little isle. Australia has about three roads by comparison. I drive to work each day on the M4 with is motorway sign but the drive to Leeds made me realise how many little roads go over a British motorway! Great roads and even with roadworks you only slow to 50 - mph! RTA please take note with your absurd 40kmh rules that no one observes. They don't even here yet carnage is somehow averted. Leadfoot was rarely under 70mph on the drive back and we still took 12 hours door to door. The Merc's trip computer tells me that we have driven 800 miles in 22 hours 37mpg) in just three days in England!
Today will be spent on foot.

1 comment:

Rose Vines said...

Bertie, with all this driving it sounds more like a trip through the outback than around tiny England. Take it easy! :-)