Hard Drivin’

This weekend I needed to make a trip to London to visit my sister and pick up my mother to bring her home. For various reasons, I decided the best plan was to drive there and back in one day.

That’s right, Cumbria to London – ~330 miles (according to Google Maps) each way and four motorways: M6, M42, M40 and (shudder) M25.

I need my head examined.

We set off just before midnight on Friday, stopped at Warwick services on the M42 for an hours nap and arrived at our destination at around 7AM. A fairly bust day followed, then we left again at 18:45. We paused briefly in Birmingham to visit my 92 year old grandmother and consume a backet of KFC, and arrived home at 2AM Sunday morning.

We were extremely lucky with the traffic – only stopping once on the way back when they decided to reduce the M6 to one lane, but everyone in lanes 2 & 3 decided to ignore the signs and wait to the last minute to get in. That winds me up so much!

For some reason I didn’t get up until noon today (or rather yesterday)…