Half an hour into our journey we thought we'd stop off for some brunch to keep us going until we got home. I enjoyed a yummy ham & cheese toastie with a caramel hot chocolate from Starbucks, while Kathryn tucked into a breakfast bap, banana & vanilla hot chocolate. I must admit the hot chocolate was delicious but the toastie was fairly average, but then again how good can you really make a cheese & ham toastie.
Once we finished our brunch we hit the road again; unfortunately for us the roads were extremely busy, making our average speed around 30mph on the motorway! Plus when we weren't stuck in queues of traffic, we were limited to 50mph for average speed checks. To say the least we were having an extremely slow start to our journey. But what we didn't realise at this point, was our day wasn't about to get any better.
Due to the road works and heavy traffic, we were instructed to use the hard shoulder aswell as the original 3 lanes, so there we were travelling along at 20mph when Tina told us to take a left in 1.9 miles, so as you do on the motorway you expect the turning to be quite soon so we stuck to the left hand lane (hard shoulder), the next thing we know we were coming off the M6 heading towards Wednesbury. No panic, we'll just go around the roundabout and get back on to the M6. OH WAIT. The bloody exit to the M6 was closed and the diverted route was insanely busy so we thought we'd head to a car park to see if we could find a quicker route.
We pull up and decide we'd take a quick pee break as well, and then we see it. An OUTFIT. Basically a store that is made up of other stores such as Topshop, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins etc. So us, being us we decided to pop in for a 'quick' shop. Emphasis on the quick. The next thing we know Kathryn's picked up 10 items and I've got 6 and we're heading into the changing rooms! I suppose this was one way to spend our break productively. I came out with a new outfit for my holiday to Greece and Kathryn came out with a cardigan, socks and of course two pairs of patterned trousers. I don't think I can take that girl anywhere without her buying patterned trousers. Maybe I just have trouser envy.
So we're back on the road again; after our detour to Wednesbury, another destination to add to our list. At least the people are nice there (or just the guy at the Outfit store). So now we are determined to get on the M5 South and get home! Kathryn's not playing games anymore, she is fed up and wants to get home, especially because she was due to go out for a meal with her work friends and we had planned the journey with plenty of time. But of course things had to go wrong. So we thought the day was improving, how wrong were we. Tina then decided to take us off the M6 into the wrong direction away from the M5 South, onto another roundabout that was closed heading towards the M5 South. At this point I thought we were going to end up staying in Bath for the night. But we eventually made our way onto the M5. *inserts hallelujah song by alexandra burke*
We were so close, yet so far. We were now close enough to see Exeter posted on the signs! So we sang our way up until 25 miles away from Exeter. We thought nothing else could go wrong, until we saw lots of car lights in the distance, yep that's right, more congestion but this time it wasn't due to road works there had been an accident. Once we had passed the accident, traffic seemed to lighten up and we were on the home straight. Thank goodness for that. 9 and 1/2 hours later we had made it home! Kathryn then quickly got ready as I explained our eventful day to her parents and Khaled came to collect us! Off she went to her meal and I was off to catch up on some much needed cuddles and sleep!
So our week had come to an end. I hope you've enjoyed my road trip blogs, if so like my Facebook post and I'll be sure to keep them up! Bye bye for now! I've left you with my beautiful singing voice.
Muchos love,
Shannon
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