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Road trip - day 36 - Saturday
Woke up in Portsmouth Premier Inn, what to do??
Has breakfast, first cooked breakfast for weeks! Trekked back to the room & loaded up the car.
Decided to go to Butlers Hard; ancient ship building village on a private estate. Very pretty!!
Had a good look around the maritime museum there - interesting! Set off down the Main Street (between the two sets of cottages - set wide apart to allow a mast to be rolled down towards the sip building harbour)
Went & sat outside the pub - ordered hummus, olives, bread & chips as a snack. Had a quick look at the harbour & the marina beyond then back to the church (in one of the cottages)
Back to the car & the mammoth drive home, the sat nav indicated a 5 hour journey - but it had its times mixed up & thought it was still in France. Approx arrival time 6pm ....... but the car had other ideas. We passed a really bad accident on the M40 - body covered on the carriage way & the road closed with tailbacks for miles. Got to Stafford Services & the 5th gear kept jumping out. Rang Green Flag - over an hour later helpful guy turns up
Got towed back to Warrington & back to reality. Lovely to see Laura, Jacob, Kaz, Tyler & Matt waiting for us ..... although there is a football match on so we don't get too much attention!! We missed tea but catch up later with pasta bake that Laura has put together.
The Melvin road trip - over & out!!!
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