Away, part 2 (246/365)

[white_hart]

We left my parents' house this morning to head for our holiday cottage on the south Yorkshire coast. While Norfolk isn't actually on the way to anywhere, I'd thought that at least we'd be on the right side of the country and could drive up the east coast, but, probably due to its fenny past, it turns out that there aren't actually any roads up the east coast, and the route Google was suggesting involved taking a B road straight through the Lincolnshire Wolds AONB. As I am not a fan of B roads, we looked for alternatives, considered going via King's Lynn and Lincoln and the Humber Bridge, and then thought that if Google was suggesting that the A1 would only take another five minutes that was probably the best bet.

Sadly, the A1 on a Friday afternoon really isn't anyone's best bet. It took us nearly two hours to get from my parents' to Cambridge, and then the A1 was stop-start all the way to Doncaster (including a particularly slow section through Rutland, which I suspect was a conspiracy to make people think Rutland is actually bigger than a postage stamp, as the traffic eased off as we passed the "Welcome to Lincolnshire" sign.

A bit over seven hours after we'd left, we finally arrived at our cottage. Which is comfortable, spacious and surrounded by sheep. Tomorrow I will go and find the sea.

Comments

[lexin]

Sorry the journey was horrible, but now for the good be of being on holiday!

[white_hart]

Indeed!

[nineveh_uk]

Oh dear, that journey sounds grim. Enjoy the next few days.

(Yes, Minster ascribes the crap roads up the east coast to transport secretaries having gone to Cambridge rather than Oxford.)

[white_hart]

At least coming back will be motorway, and not on a Friday!

[antisoppist]

A friend of mine at UEA's parents owned a post office and village shop on the A47 near Wisbech and said everyone (apart from me from Essex) ended up driving past it because it was The Only Way Out Of Norfolk.

[white_hart]

There certainly aren't many!

[cmcmck]

Ah yes- we are rather familiar with sheep! :o)

[sfred]

I hope you have a lovely holiday! (I am a bit confused by "south Yorkshire coast"...)

[white_hart]

East Riding, technically - I was thinking of it as being south of the bit of the Yorkshire coast I've visited before, around Whitby/Robin Hood's Bay.

[sfred]

Ah, that makes sense! I hope you are having a lovely time :-)

[crinolinerobot]

Yeah, Norfolk is a pain to get in and out of - though it's easier to come in from the south nowadays than it was when it was all still single carriageway at the Suffolk border!

[white_hart]

Oh yes - when my parents first moved there, there was a big chunk of single carriageway on the A43 from Brackley to Northampton, as well as the A11 from Barton Mills to Thetford, and the tedious stretch of the A14 from Huntingdon to Cambridge, and all of those have been improved and upgraded now!