Fiona's Quiet Life

One thing i have learnt about sat nav is when it has planned a route avoid­ing traffic , don’t for­get to reset it if you stop for the night.….….….…i was half way up Ger­many when the sat­nav warned me of traffic queues ahead, well i ignored that because the last time it said that there was only 2 slow mov­ing lor­ries which i over­took no prob­lem and the other time it warned of a secur­ity haz­ard which turned out to be a tanker con­tain­ing who knows what, any­way it warned me , i ignored it, next thing they closed the motor­way and i had no idea of how to get towards Bre­men, the sat­nav just kept nag­ging me to get back on the motor­way. even­tu­ally i thought i was far enough away for it to re rout me , so it did back on to the motor­way on a bit i had already driven up.….….by this time the traffic queue was miles longer so i pulled in to a filling sta­tion as slow traffic can eat up the fuel, filled up, had a cof­fee, had a p and looked a the road , now it was tail­ing back even fur­ther .….…it was by this time 4.30 in the after­noon and i still had 500 miles to go so i thought it would be best just to stay where i was for the night so i got a bed in the motel „„„„„„i still have no idea where it was, any­way the next morn­ing . i set off nice and early on to the now empty motor­way , and the st nav leads me off at the next exit so off i go as i trust the thing but of course it was tak­ing me away from last nights con­ges­tion so i had a lovely tour of small Ger­man vil­lages for half an hour when it put me back on the motorway.….….…i did miss a hor­rid bit of road­works though so it was good.

i knew that trav­el­ling that day was going to be fraught as the ferry arrived in Ijmuiden late and then a lorry broke down block­ing the exit so we all had to stay on board drink­ing tea for an hour.

you can tell by all this that my quiet life has taken me to Den­mark to stay with my brother.

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