Day 4, planes, queues and more queues

After arriving early to Harwich, we started the day with breakfast at Costa and a quick refill of the cars at a nearby petrol station. We’d decided to visit the Shuttleworth Collection on the way to Wales. Further more, we decided to take a more northern route in order to avoid the Birmingham traffic. In total the distance would be some 474 km.

Shuttleworth was in the plan already in 2016, during the 40th Anniversary Tour of the Swedish Lotus Car club. But then we got enough of planes at Duxford. This time however, it was a good time to get a leg stretch and some lunch. Lots of planes and some cars and busses as well. All in a very good condition. So, well worth a visit if you are into planes. The restaurant wasn’t impressing though. You are better off somewhere else.

We pressed on towards Wales and the traffic got heavier and heavier. Outside Stoke we got stuck for a couple of hours due to an accident. Further on towards Chester we got caught up in another queue. We finally arrived at the hotel around 8 pm. Too late to get any food, so we went to the bar instead for a cold beer. Two of the other cars had better sat-nav equipment, and took some back-roads instead. They arrived a couple of hours ahead of us. The hotel was as quirky as we expected. We found it via the TV series ‘Car SOS’. In one episode, they handed back a Jaguar Mk iI at this very hotel. You can tell a petrol head from normal people by the way they pick their hotels…