Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2009-05-06 19:36:39 - Graham Ellis
It's only quarter to eight in the evening ... but I'm exhausted to sleep - probably due to the quarter past five start from home this morning. Perhaps that was crazy, but for on site course between 150 and 200 miles from home, I'm torn - to travel out the night before, have the hassle of unloading all the kit into a hotel and then loading it back in the morning for the final drive to the destination ... or the alternative early start. And that's the one that won.
So - where am I? I started from home at 05:15 and stopped after 149 mile at 07:43 for breakfast. I carried on again at 08:10 and had a further 34 miles to travel, which took the best part of an hour - the very last 8 miles taking a half of that hour.
I'm now in my hotel room ... the picture was taken during a short walk, during which a takeaway meal was collected and brought back in. The room overlooks the busiest railway line I think I've seen in an age, with services and colours from a veritable glut of operators. I expect I'll sleep through.
So - where am I? I started from home at 05:15 and stopped after 149 mile at 07:43 for breakfast. I carried on again at 08:10 and had a further 34 miles to travel, which took the best part of an hour - the very last 8 miles taking a half of that hour.