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So, yesterday I left my backpack in far southern Somerset, so today I drove from Wiltshire to Somerset, south of Taunton (specifically, the village of Cricket St Thomas).
Idle note: I have now used the lavatories at the erstwhile Grantleigh Manor. This is a disconcertingly earthy connection to childhood television loves.
I then drove through: Somerset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Cheshire, and into Merseyside; for reasons that escape me, looking at a map, I even saw a sign briefly welcoming me to Hampshire today.
It's probably not a surprise that around St Helens I was too damn tired to keep driving for Scotland, so I poked at my TomTom to find me some local accommodation. The first one looked too sketchy so I tried another, and found myself at the Premier Inn in Haydock, where I paid fifty pounds to rent a room that turns out to be really very nice, leaving my car in a vaguely semi-secure carpark. (That said, all my principle valuables are in the room with me, and everything is insured anyway; more important is that I feel reasonably safe here myself.)
I left my toothbrush in the car but I'm too damn tired to go get it.
So yeah. About four hours of driving required to get to Edinburgh tomorrow; checkout is at 12 and I'm not due till the afternoon, so I can sleep and still make it, which is good.
Things that are charming about Britain: Getting called "my lovely" by women with regional accents.Current Location: Haydock, Merseyside, United Kingdom
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