London to Carlisle!

As I sit here in bed on the laptop, Ben is watching ‘Underworld’. I think one thing that I’ve learnt about Ben during our Honeymoon is that he is actually a normal guy. Often when we watch TV in our room he flicks to the soccer or some other non-girly channel. Don’t worry, I think Love Actually is still his favourite though.

Well, here we are in a place called Carlisle. It is north of London, Birmingham and the Lakes District. I believe we are on the northern side of Britain and we will cross the boarder into Scotland tomorrow. It took us about 6 hours to get here from London and we shall be seeing the Lakes District tomorrow before we head for the land of Kilts and the Loch Ness. We had initially planned to do this today but we spent the morning sleeping at my cousin’s place, having a big breakfast, watching Scrubs (Season 7!) and shopping for lunch and fruit at Tesco.

It was a nice drive up, although a bit long for my liking. Once you get out of London the driving is much better as there aren’t as many cars and three lane motorways.

We stopped for lunch at the ‘Poplar’ rest stop at about 3pm. We made sandwiches from smoked salmon, cream cheese and some bread rolls.

We reached our Travelodge at about 6:30pm and I was pleasantly surprised at the state of the rooms. There wasn’t an unpleasant smell and everything appeared clean. Perhaps I have been in south east asia for too long, but I was very happy. The last time I stayed in a Travelodge was with my parents in October 2007 and I remember one of our rooms had a strange smell (I thought it was urine) and we found a large black spider near my luggage.

The only downside about this place is that when you’re outside you’re surrounded by a strong stench which I think is either manure or vomit. You get the idea? Really gross.

Early night tonight, another day of driving tomorrow!