and back
in less than 48 hours !!!
Some of you may not know
that my eldest son , Jonathan
has a son named Aidan age 9,
who lives with his mum in
Cupar Fife.
Aidan wanted to come down
to England to spend Easter with his dad,
Claire and his sisters Olivia and Amelia (who he
had not seen) ... but he also wanted his dad
to go and see where he lives ..(they live in a different
house now) .. SO I said I would accompany my
son on the journey up there !!!!!!
I must be mad ....don't answer that ;-)
So we set off on Thursday at
10.30 am ,, arrived in St Andrews ,Fife
at around 6.30 pm....
It was not a very eventful journey,
(only the nightmare traffic on M6,)
UNTIL
There we were crusing along nicely on the M74
There we were crusing along nicely on the M74
when all of a sudden the SAT NAV..
decided it wanted to take
us off our route ,
it took us to a place called Moffat
then through some tiny villages
apparently
this is the Edinburgh SCENIC route,
as much as I love scenery , it was a bit bleak up there
and so many windy roads.
Scenic routes are quite nice, but not when you want
to get somewhere in a hurryy!!!
to get somewhere in a hurryy!!!
As you can imagine, Jonathan wondered what was going on !!
We stayed overnight in The West Port, which I can
say I would stay again, it was fab.
Up at 06.45 am, breakfast at 07.00 am
(amazing breakfast) ... picked Aidan up
at 8.00am , left Cupar at 08.30am
and on the road again!!
Please click on photos to enlarge
These photos were taken on the way back ... can you see all the Wind Turbines!!
There are so many of them , in the snowy hills.
Photo in centre below is the Forth Road Bridge
and below it is the
Forth Bridge for the Trains.
The M6 was horrendous...(Birmingham area)
and finally made it back to my house at around 16.30pm..
and I think they got home to Winchester at 17.15pm.
All in all , a good trip , even though it was
very tiring .
But as my grandson said "Nanny , how can
you be tired, all you did was sit there, Daddy did the driving!!"
(Note to myself... change the date and time on my camera,, they were
taken on Thursday and friday ..promise!!)