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Last Saturday we left home to travel to the east coast ...Horsey...to see the seal pups which are born between late October and early February. I noticed a few things on the journey.
A lot of road kill. Having had negative experiences ..long holdups...on motorways we gave the M5-M42-M6 a miss and used A roads...A429-A46-A11-A14. The road kill included four pheasants..they were mainly here in the Cotswolds where the landed gentry breed them so they and their ilk can indulge in their favourite pastime of killing creatures. Two badgers...three birds of prey..difficult to tell which ones..kestrels ?. A small deer..Cotswolds again. Three rabbits ,two blackbirds, a few pigeons and early in the journey two juvenile foxes. At a place called Acle , Norfolk, there were two fox cubs on the offside of the road and one on the nearside at the same location. It looked like a recent incident. There were other corpses which were unidentifiable, possibly, hedgehogs. I'm sure one was an owl.
During the 232 mile journey the I saw only one police vehicle and that was exiting Cambridge services heading west. I didn't see any on the return journey. Near to this location were two very impressive suspension bridges (white) carrying, what appeared to be, a single track service road ..for a farmer's tractor etc..maybe ??...over the A14 dual-carriageway .They looked out of place.
I can't recall which service station but one had a very large number of EV charging points. It was on the A11 or A14....somewhere east of Cambridge.
As we travelled further east the cost of petrol became more expensive. Here in Gloucester it's 148p per litre. Never mind that small '9' some of us once had a discussion about... and in Norfolk it was 164p , which was the most expensive and exclusively at BP garages alongside a M&S shop...a food shop, I assume.
The Services at Cambridge were good (a spicy food stall just inside the entrance) but the tops was the Rugby Moto Services on the M6 on our return journey . The A14 runs into it but we soon came off it west of Coventry and onto the A46. The Rugby Services is 3 years old. At the Costa Coffee shop there was a fantastic Irish lady taking the coffee orders. What a character and she smiled/laughed and engaged every customer in friendly chat. She commented on my wife's soft Scottish accent likening it to that of Mrs Doubtfire(actor ..the late Robin Williams) The design was futuristic ,the very large dining area was so spacious and the tables a couple of metres apart and there were even booths for two..a small table and two chairs..very private. There were several retailers including Greggs..sausage rolls,pasties,sandwiches. A WH Smiths ,M&S, Pret, Burger King and KFC. I see that last year it was voted the best in Britain https://www.itv.com/news/central/20...vices-named-as-motos-rugby-services-on-the-m6
Amazingly, in 11 hours driving (there and back) ie 464 miles... there were no accidents.When we go to Cornwall, using the M5 ,there are always accidents either south-bound or north-bound.Same going to Scotland M5/M6 and in September we were on the M4 across South Wales to Lampeter , near New Quay.. and had to get off it because of an accident and a 2hr 40 minute journey took almost 5 hours.If we can use an A road...and many are dual carriageways, we will do. Far less traffic and far less stress
We left at 9.30 am this morning and were surprised with this..The outside temperature shown inside the car was 0.5C
A lot of road kill. Having had negative experiences ..long holdups...on motorways we gave the M5-M42-M6 a miss and used A roads...A429-A46-A11-A14. The road kill included four pheasants..they were mainly here in the Cotswolds where the landed gentry breed them so they and their ilk can indulge in their favourite pastime of killing creatures. Two badgers...three birds of prey..difficult to tell which ones..kestrels ?. A small deer..Cotswolds again. Three rabbits ,two blackbirds, a few pigeons and early in the journey two juvenile foxes. At a place called Acle , Norfolk, there were two fox cubs on the offside of the road and one on the nearside at the same location. It looked like a recent incident. There were other corpses which were unidentifiable, possibly, hedgehogs. I'm sure one was an owl.
During the 232 mile journey the I saw only one police vehicle and that was exiting Cambridge services heading west. I didn't see any on the return journey. Near to this location were two very impressive suspension bridges (white) carrying, what appeared to be, a single track service road ..for a farmer's tractor etc..maybe ??...over the A14 dual-carriageway .They looked out of place.
I can't recall which service station but one had a very large number of EV charging points. It was on the A11 or A14....somewhere east of Cambridge.
As we travelled further east the cost of petrol became more expensive. Here in Gloucester it's 148p per litre. Never mind that small '9' some of us once had a discussion about... and in Norfolk it was 164p , which was the most expensive and exclusively at BP garages alongside a M&S shop...a food shop, I assume.
The Services at Cambridge were good (a spicy food stall just inside the entrance) but the tops was the Rugby Moto Services on the M6 on our return journey . The A14 runs into it but we soon came off it west of Coventry and onto the A46. The Rugby Services is 3 years old. At the Costa Coffee shop there was a fantastic Irish lady taking the coffee orders. What a character and she smiled/laughed and engaged every customer in friendly chat. She commented on my wife's soft Scottish accent likening it to that of Mrs Doubtfire(actor ..the late Robin Williams) The design was futuristic ,the very large dining area was so spacious and the tables a couple of metres apart and there were even booths for two..a small table and two chairs..very private. There were several retailers including Greggs..sausage rolls,pasties,sandwiches. A WH Smiths ,M&S, Pret, Burger King and KFC. I see that last year it was voted the best in Britain https://www.itv.com/news/central/20...vices-named-as-motos-rugby-services-on-the-m6
Amazingly, in 11 hours driving (there and back) ie 464 miles... there were no accidents.When we go to Cornwall, using the M5 ,there are always accidents either south-bound or north-bound.Same going to Scotland M5/M6 and in September we were on the M4 across South Wales to Lampeter , near New Quay.. and had to get off it because of an accident and a 2hr 40 minute journey took almost 5 hours.If we can use an A road...and many are dual carriageways, we will do. Far less traffic and far less stress
We left at 9.30 am this morning and were surprised with this..The outside temperature shown inside the car was 0.5C
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