Guaranteed to Proceed Slowly.

Now, the last few years I have been making regular trips from West Wales to Colsterworth.

These journeys courtesy of GPS have involved considerable times on our over stretched and over crowded motorway system. I have been parked in the slow lane all over the country.....

So anyway this time I went to colsterworth and of course there was a complication. The damn thing was a bit broken. At some stage it had taken a hit and the external power lead would not fit any more meaning that it had to be fed regularly with alkaline batteries for which is has a very healthy appetite.

This in turn provoked an outbreak of map reading and, forsaking the M42 and M6 which strike dread into my heart, at the end of the unfortunately numbered M69, I took the A46 and followed it all the way down to the M5.

Admitedly this was the Iveco which can only be reliably made to break the motorwwy speed limit by pushing it off a viaduct..... None the less the journey was achieved in about the same time as it would on the motorway when it is clear, which is usually isn't and with a lot less stress of playing "dodge the lorry" with a bit of "create a gap in the nose to tail stream of rep cars" (with all the horn tooting light flashing and finger waving that carries with it) and generally left me feeling a far happier little bunny.

Hmm - think I might just junk the GPS.

R