GB19 - Day 2

Up early and popped across to the main services for breakfast. Decided on McDonald's. A nice bacon and egg McMuffin.

It's on the other side of the motorway! 

Dogs are not allowed inside the services building and the bridge is inside. Bugger it. Once across the bridge to McD and queue was out of the door. None of the ordering screens were working. Not queuing.

Subway almost next door do a really nice sub with bacon, egg and cheese. Also no queue.  So we had that.

Finally on the road just after 10am and all seemed to be going well until about three and a half miles short of Stonehenge. Stopped dead. Two lanes go down to one. Some 45 minutes later we crawled past the stones. 

Why the f**k there is no bypass for anyone passing by? 

The A303 is stop start pretty often due to either dual carriageways running out, or the two lanes becoming one. 

Surely the locals want bypasses for their villages rather than solid traffic and all the pollution?

We arrived at our planned stop at Stourhead way later than expected. Lucky we are members and we park free. 

Reggie isn't allowed in the landscape garden until after 4pm and so we had a walk around the outside and had a coffee in the garden. 

Back on the road and more solid traffic wherever two lanes went down to one. The route took us a few junctions on the M5 and the traffic was solid going north. An idea what we might see next week on our return. 

A stop at Taunton Deane services for a drink and for Reggie to stretch his legs. 

Altogether our stops had come to an hour and forty minutes. We eventually arrived at the cottage just after 5pm. TomTom reckoned just under four hours not seven.

As we were parking, Anna the owner passed by. She had left us a cream tea in the cottage. 

Our home for the week and Corsa

Once unpacked we needed to get out again to a supermarket. 

We had the first cream tea installment first.

First cream tea

The supermarket was Tesco in Bideford. We need to go back as Bideford looks nice and the river/inlet is tidal.

Once back we gave Reggie a run around the field by the cottage. Dinner? Lasagne and cider.

Tomorrow. Where to?