Travels over

Our travels are over. We had a clear plan and followed it through. We got up and had breakfast then packed and loaded the car. By 9:30 we were on the road. The logic was that being Bank Holiday Monday people would be heading home, but trying to make the most of the last few hours. By heading out early we hoped to get well ahead of them.

That is how it turned out. We sailed through Cardiff and up to the motorway then set the cruise control and hardly had to adjust it until we approached Winchester. There was a bit of a tailback at the junction with the M3 and another where the M3 splits for the M27.  They probably added 15 minutes to the trip, but despite that we were home in three hours and six minutes. The Gorse Fox likes it when a plan comes together.

A chicken is roasting in the oven as we enjoy a quiet afternoon. At first, the Gorse Fox went and sat in the garden but a storm came over and blasted some impressive thunder overhead as it dumped a lot of rain on us. He had seen it approach on the weather radar so was well prepared (and inside) by the time it started. According to the local news it brought down a tree on the A27 and there's flash flooding round LA and on the A259. All in all we appear to have got off lightly.