My friend
Marte and I have been at a road trip. We went to the UK, which was amazing. We
started our trip in Bristol, a city East in England. We hired our beautiful car
that we drove through the whole trip.
Bristol was
a beautiful city both in day-time and night-time. Luckily for us the weather
was great when we stayed there. We slept two nights in the city all together
before we started at our real roadtrip.
We found a
very nice hotel the first day which we stayed at both nights. It had a SPA
which we were really excited about and also tried out the first day. Other than
that we explored the city a bit, by walking in the streets. At the evening we
ate dinner at the restaurant in the hotel.
The second day we spent in a shopping centre, when we came back to the hotel we did some exercising at the fitness room. We decided to eat dinner at a restaurant this evening. On our way to find an interesting restaurant, we saw the Clifton suspension bridge lighted up. I just had to take a picture:
The second day we spent in a shopping centre, when we came back to the hotel we did some exercising at the fitness room. We decided to eat dinner at a restaurant this evening. On our way to find an interesting restaurant, we saw the Clifton suspension bridge lighted up. I just had to take a picture:
We ended up
at a restaurant called “Glassboat”, and it was literally a restaurant in a boat
were every wall was made out of glass. It was so nice.
We started driving towards a place called Amesbury, the reason why we chose this place is because of the Stonehnge which we really wanted to see. The driving wasn’t going to smoothly, it was a horrible weather from start to finish and we drove for longer than we needed. The first problem came up when the wind blew up and it started to rain, it rained a lot. We didn’t drive more than around 8 miles before we had to stop because a tree had fallen over the road. We had no idea of what to do, so we waited for a while until we saw that it was a car behind us. A man came towards us and said that he was going to call someone that could help us get the tree out of the way. We thanked him, and about 45 minutes later, the tree got removed and we could continue to drive in the horrible weather. We switched turns at driving, and even though the weather outside the car wasn’t that good, we had a great time inside of the car. At the end this was the route we drove that day:
It didn’t
take us 2 hours and 28 minutes but over the double because of the
tree-situation and the bad weather we had. When we arrived Amesbury we ordered
take-away and slept in the car. The next day were so exciting, we were going to
see the Stonehenge. The weather was so much better that day, just some clouds
at the sky, otherwise, perfect. Here is a picture of our visit:
We slept in our car that night as well, before we headed over for London. Driving to London went much smoother than our first stage of the trip. The weather was so much better and we drove virtually straight towards London. This is the route from Amesbury to London:
We arrived
in London at 1 pm. The first thing we did was to find a nice hotel were we
booked 2 nights. The room was exclusive with two huge beds and a big tub at the
bathroom. The view was unique and we could see London eye form our window.
We both took
a bath and ate dinner and dessert at the hotel. After the dinner, we went to a
cinema and watched a movie called “Dear John”. The movie was very good but sad,
we both cried.
The next day was very exciting, we visited London eye and ate macaroons at a nice café in between all of the shopping.
The next day was very exciting, we visited London eye and ate macaroons at a nice café in between all of the shopping.
The last
day in London we ate breakfast and leaved the hotel quite early because we had
a long trip ahead of us to Skegness. Because we wanted to see a bit from the
seaside in the UK we decided to drive a detour. The final route ended up like
this:
It was a
quite long trip, but it was worth it. The east coast in the UK was amazing. The
weather wasn’t that good from the start, but after an hour or so it became
better. Outside the car window we could
see many people like families, children, adults and old ones. We stopped our
car to eat and buy some food for the next days. There was a huge market in
Lowestoft, which was more or less halfway from London to Skegness. At the
market there was so much to look at, we bought a lot of food and met many nice
people. After a good rest, we continued the driving to Skegness. This is one of
the beautiful views by the road:
When we
finally arrived in Skegness we were both tired. There was a camp where we was
supposed to sleep. At the camp we met the owner and he helped us with the
caravan we rented for the night. It was a small but cute caravan with enough
space for the two of us. Here is a picture from the inside:
We ate some
pizza from a snack bar near the camp before we went to sleep.
The next
day our plan was to explore the places in Skegness. We had found an amusement
park near the camp that we wanted to check out. There was a huge roller coaster
we just had to try. It was so much fun and we loved it. Here is a picture we
took from the top of the roller coaster:
After a
funny day in Skegness, the car was calling and the last part of our road trip
was about to start. This time the route was taking us form Skegness to
Birmingham and this is how it was planned:
Our plan in
Birmingham was to visit the Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park. When we came
to our hotel room, we placed the bags there before we went out to eat. The restaurant was called Golden Dragon and
the food was perfect. We ate the best beef I have ever tasted, served with
potatoes and some salad. The dessert was even better. Chocolate mousse with
cream and strawberry. After that, we took a train to the Birmingham Wildlife
Conservation Park. In the park we got to see a lot of different animals. It
wasn’t the same as a zoo, but we both liked it. Here are a picture collage with
some of the animals:
We went
back to the hotel and talked about our fantastic road trip together before we
felt asleep.
The last
day was suddenly there and we had to pack our baggage and say goodbye to the
beautiful UK. It was sad, but we both agreed that the trip had been perfect and
amazing, we couldn’t wish for anything more.
I really
want to thank my good friend Marte for this funny and memorable road trip.
:)