Time for a travel day! We woke up outside of Glasgow in the lovely home of Nick and Katy. Had breakfast together ...
... and then said goodbye for now in the late morning. They are always such a delight to visit. Next time in Gothenburgh?
The drive from Glasgow to Huddersfield is just over four hours. Liam and I both needed some alone time and to sink into ourselves for a bit, so he listened to a podcast while I wrote in my journal and listened to Love...Thy Will Be Done by Martika on repeat. What a song. What a life this is.
We stopped at Tebay Services for lunch. I bloody love Tebay Services (also Gloucester Services when going to the south - it's the same company). Actually, I don't know any Brit who doesn't sigh happily at the thought of Tebay Services. They drive A LOT in this country, you know, so how would you not love services with a pond? And actual grass? And good veggie food?
AND they have a shop for locally grown food. I bought some local and local-ish stout, OBVS. Had so much great beer on this trip.
And in the afternoon we made it to Skelmanthorpe (not really Huddersfield as it says in the title of this post, but they lived there for so long that I still think of it as "going to Huddersfield") to see Rosie and Marshal and their lovely family. Turns out we made it back to England from Scotland just in time for a heatwave. When we left Glasgow it was 21°C; four hours in an air conditioned car later, we stepped out in 31°C. Help! :)
Georgia handed me a very cute egg tattoo almost as soon as we got in the door.
She was a very tattooed lady herself this afternoon. :) I wanted all of her tattoos!
Something about Marshal's cooking was loud, apparently!
Is that a black hole I see, resting on the stairs?
Marshal made us some delightful dinner.
And then we spent the rest of the evening out on the patio.
It was a slightly more comfortable temperature of 25°C at night, and a perfect summer evening to spend outside with fabulous company ...
... a good beer ...
... and sticky toffee pudding. :)
The next morning we had breakfast ...
... and cuddled with Molly ...
... and took selfies ...
... and then we waved goodbye to the family. It was so, so lovely to get to spend time with these wonderful humans. The memories from this trip are so incredibly valuable to me.
Martika | Love...Thy Will Be Done
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