500 miles today

I'm getting too old for these 500 mile days. I left Barrow at some time before 8am and had a hassle free trip down to Portishead for a meeting of Bristol Corn and Feed Trade Association, which straddled a fairly decent pub lunch. The nice thing was this view



The trip back wasn't too bad, either, and not too bad a carbon footprint, with the new Golf averaging 52mpg. One problem was the northbound M42 was closed to the east of Brum, so I had to bash on down the M40, skirt Coventry and then head north east on the M69. Gawd, how anorakky is that? Still, I was back in the office for 5.30pm, so not much time was lost.