just a quick summary of the Yorkshire trip. Set off to drive 240 miles on a bank holiday Friday. Not the smartest decision especially looking at the AA road watch map all afternoon showed the whole country on slow down or accidents. decided to leave after tea which we did hitting the road at 7.30pm. all I can say is that the First part of the M5 was slow and the M42, but after that we positively purred along. Even managed to zip past the 3 snails on the Brid road with ease. arrived 11 pm. However as we were last to arrive we lost the bed to my sister and fella Dave. We therefore had to settle for their new fancy camp beds. Sometime late they were assembled and into the sleeping bags we slipped.
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