Sunday, June 01, 2003

 

Day 38. Monday 02 June 2003. Short Run to Kendal

We had a late breakfast 8.30 a.m. without too many people in the dining area but a group were gathering in the bar area. Enquiring we learnt it was an insurance firm financial seminar for the long weekend. Most looked bored with life. I would too if I had to give up my Bank holiday weekend.

Breakfast was help you self to everything with no limits and toast your own to your tastes on a fast commercial toaster. There was a wide variety so we tucked in to last the day. We didn't hurry to leave and when we did I stayed in the left hand lane of the M6 and took it easy sight-seeing. Suddenly we seemed to be in a lane about to leave the M6. I looked around frantically we were entering the M25, we were going to Blackpool! There was traffic coming up behind me in the lane which I should have moved in to earlier. All I could do was either drive onto the M6 "no mans land" or keeping going towards Blackpool on the M25.

We kept on in the direction of Blackpool. Now what? After a few miles the M25 petered out into a dual carriageway and here it was a friendly looking round-a-bout and we retraced our steps back to the M6. Now I was all attention again and a lesson learnt... eyes on the road whilst driving, inattention leads to trouble even in light traffic. So we bowled along back on the M6 and soon we were getting close to Kendal and our off ramp at Junction 37.

A mile or two before the junction we came upon an accident, it must have just happened moments before we arrived. A car towing a caravan appeared to have jack-knifed and the caravan was on its side in the inner lane. Suddenly all lanes were full of traffic and we were in the inner lane with other cars and hemmed in. Putting on our blinker and in moments there was a gap in the traffic, some kind soul let us into the middle lane.

Just down the road from the off ramp was our B&B at Cragg Farm so we called in to drop our our bags off and renew our acquaintance with Olive Knowles. We were shown up to the room which Ian, Anthony and Gillian stayed in on our previous visit. It was still only late morning so we then headed down into Kendal on this fine sunny day.

We spent the early afternoon in Kendal window shopping and and lunch remarking how the old town hadn,t changed at all since our last visit 3 years ago. Later in the afternoon we made our way up to see Cathy and Verd for high tea and Kitkat bars. Afterwards we talked of old times and the present and thhe evening wore on.

Then we headed back to Cragg Farm and watched TV for a while in the lounge and then off to bed.

posted by OldEric 9:13 pm