Off we go then.
As is often the case, everyone arrived at the breakfast stop more or less together. Everyone that is except Richard. A late mechanical problem unfortunately put him out of the tour, but I was able to cancel all the booking at no cost, so disappointing, but not costly.
We saw this early on the motorway, that's the back of a VW Caddy van made into a trailer for a Type 2
We headed north, but this year spent very little time on the A1 because we were only travelling about 100 miles to the first hotel at Snaith. Obviously those that had come up from the south coast had already done quite a few miles before breakfast.
We stayed on minor roads, passing through a few villages & also Belvior Castle – it’s apparently pronounced “Beever”. Having skirted Newark & crossed the A1, we took the A1133 due north past Weecar & pulled into “The Courtyard Tearooms” coffee stop, where I was informed that the Stylus' brake lights weren't working. After that we had to cross a toll bridge, I had been rather shocked to discover that the toll was only 50p & had that princely sum in a pot ready, but obviously I couldn't reach it as I rolled up to the toll booth, so unclipped the harness, then dropped the two 20p & two 5p coins into my crotch. I managed to retrieve it & didn't feel the need to tell the lady in the booth where they had recently been. Then we took some quiet roads to the A620 at Welham.
Next there was an “unfortunately urban” bit as we cut through the midlands, but soon we were going through countryside again heading for the A1(M) & A162 after which we passed an impressively large sewage farm.
Next on the agenda was Birkin Fisheries tea room - which was closed. Somehow we had lost Mark in the Alpine, but he didn't seem to mind, we had messages saying he was looking for ice cream.
Eventually we arrived at the Downe Arms & it's very long, very thin car park, where I looked at the video from the front camera, only to find that it had recorded 5,500 still photos after the first coffee stop.
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