Calum, Peter,
great set of photos... I envy your adventure.
I had a different week....whilst you enjoyed Europe I experienced the UK Motorway network at its best, spending much time not going anywhere and admiring the view of the vehicles around me. Most frustratingly my car doesn't have DAB Radio (the Morgan does) so I couldn't listen to the Cricket!
The run back from York to Salisbury on Friday was made particularly special by the closure of the M6 and the southbound M1 and A1M. The M6 closure was unusual as 18,000 litres of chemical processing waste, mostly dilute sulphuric acid, spilled out from a damaged tanker, closing both lanes near Knutsford for 8 hours. So all the usual traffic found alternative routes, or at least tried to do so.
Then, just when I thought it was safe the Northbound A34 south of Oxford was closed whilst the emergency services cleared up the remains of what I think was a caravan. The Southbound side was also closed for a short while because the Emergency Helicopter had to find somewhere to land.
I left York at 13:00 and thanks to a lot of "A Road Discovery" got home at 19:30, just 2.5 hours longer than it should have been...
