Cornwall - Day Four
We decided to get up with Lucas (as he was regularly waking at 5:30 am) and get on the road early. We left the Treyarnon YHA at 6:30 am and headed south-west to Bodmin and then on the A38 (lovely road BTW) to Plymouth. We entered the outskirts of Plymouth at just after 8:00 am.. enough to catch the beginnings of peak-hour traffic, so we decided to stop just before the bridge into Plymouth and enjoy a slice of English culinary expertise.
'Little Chef' is a chain of roadside restaurants that flourished in the 50's and 60's as the nation traveled on A-roads. With the arrival of the Motorways, increased average speeds, and families stopping less frequently on their travels... Little Chef has fallen upon hard times and has recently been taken over by Hungry Jack's. Nowadays, Little Chef survives on lorry drivers for its income. I had the pancakes, which were actually very good and quite reasonably priced. Natasha had the American Breakfast... which featured two brown oxidised strips of miscellaneous meat product (supposedly bacon), pancakes, and some inedible scrambled eggs. Oh well, you live.. you learn.
We headed into Plymouth and had a walk around the fantastic harbour, naval base and waterfront. Unfortunately the weather wasn't too kind.
Heading back home, Lucas decided that he wasn't too sleepy, which made the drive from Plymouth to Exeter rather tiring. After 45 minutes of him continually whining, we stopped off for an early lunch at the M5 services. Once we has asleep, we drove like a bat out-of-hell up the M5, through Bristol.. and then turning right towards the old Roman town of Cirencester. From there we headed home through the Cotswolds on the A429, which is an old Roman road. The drive was fantastic and it was nice to see parts of the Cotswolds that we haven't managed to get to. Once we got to Stow-on-the-Wold we turned off towards Chipping Norton and Banbury. We managed to drive non-stop from Exeter to Banbury in about 2.5 hours.. not bad going!
'Little Chef' is a chain of roadside restaurants that flourished in the 50's and 60's as the nation traveled on A-roads. With the arrival of the Motorways, increased average speeds, and families stopping less frequently on their travels... Little Chef has fallen upon hard times and has recently been taken over by Hungry Jack's. Nowadays, Little Chef survives on lorry drivers for its income. I had the pancakes, which were actually very good and quite reasonably priced. Natasha had the American Breakfast... which featured two brown oxidised strips of miscellaneous meat product (supposedly bacon), pancakes, and some inedible scrambled eggs. Oh well, you live.. you learn.
We headed into Plymouth and had a walk around the fantastic harbour, naval base and waterfront. Unfortunately the weather wasn't too kind.
Heading back home, Lucas decided that he wasn't too sleepy, which made the drive from Plymouth to Exeter rather tiring. After 45 minutes of him continually whining, we stopped off for an early lunch at the M5 services. Once we has asleep, we drove like a bat out-of-hell up the M5, through Bristol.. and then turning right towards the old Roman town of Cirencester. From there we headed home through the Cotswolds on the A429, which is an old Roman road. The drive was fantastic and it was nice to see parts of the Cotswolds that we haven't managed to get to. Once we got to Stow-on-the-Wold we turned off towards Chipping Norton and Banbury. We managed to drive non-stop from Exeter to Banbury in about 2.5 hours.. not bad going!
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