[DumfriesDik]

Yesterday, we went on a day trip of 300 miles total, from Dumfries to Bradford and back.

As it happens at the 100 mile mark are some InstaVolt chargers at Booths at Kirkby Lonsdale. We topped up and continued to Bradford which I will talk about in a minute. Returning home we stopped at the same Booths and had a snack whilst the car recharged. And then headed north back to Dumfries. Essentially, we had three legs of 100 miles punctuated by two stops at the same Booths. The charge bays are incredibly narrow. On both our visits, there were other cars over the white demarcation lines for the bays, reducing the capacity. Booths is a great wee supermarket with excellent loo’s.

Back to Bradford, and I apologise to anyone living there, but as a visitor I was staggered by the bad driving, it was like the wild west. We were greeted by three helmetless lads on dirt bikes doing wheelies. A car overtook going up a road with traffic calming, go so fast all four wheels left the road. I stopped at ‘Keep Clear’ road marking for a junction. The Range Rover two cars back took exception, drove on the pavement and then blocked the junction. All in all it was not a nice place to drive.

We arrived home to find the Chinese food had been delivered and the day was rounded off with a couple of cans. The ID3 was great and public charging perfect.

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[Phaedra]

Bradford ?
I have a friend who lives there, over the last 20 years or so her estate has turned from a nice community to a complete sh*t hole. Most of the houses in her street now have “families” with no regard for their neighbours, cr@p pilled up in the gardens, cars in various states of repair parked everywhere, bags of rubbish dumped on the footpaths.

Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!

[kezo]

Didn’t we have a lovely time the day we went to Bradford
A beautiful day, we charged on the way and all for under a tenner you know
But on the way back we sped so fast we didn’t look behind us
Singing we’re coming home, to Dumfries & Galloway as the wheels went round
Do you recall we didn’t understand a word they said in Bradford
Then in the city centre we felt the aura of Bradford
We had a cup of tea as we watched the cars go round the racetrack
Didn’t we have a lovely time the day we went to Bradford
A beautiful day, we charged on the way and all for under a tenner you know
we got back at 10pm you know, sat round the table and enjoyed a takeaway from China
Didn’t we have a lovely time the day we went to Bradford
Dik whispered we should have had a lovely time the day we should have gone to Bangor

 

• This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by kezo.

[Phaedra]

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Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!

[Jojoe]

I’ve drove past Bradford many times on the M62, last time I actually stopped was in the early nineties to visit the museum of photography.

[DumfriesDik]

@kezo – brilliant! Just brilliant!! ?

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