Road Trip!

We left good ol' London Town to see what lay up North! Yorkshire is truly beautiful!
Our first stop was Louth where we stayed with Ali. She is a wonderful host and it was a pleasure meeting two of her sons. We were pleased to see that she had missed most of flooding although it was sad to see the affects on her neighbours. The river was rather swollen and still looked as though it could cause more trouble.
Louth is a great little village. The locals were very friendly and welcomed us warmly - to the point of me being (literally) dragged into a local's home to look at her wine collection - and very nice it was too!
The local pubs were fantastic and I made a point of trying the local ale - man does it go down easily! Very good indeed.

Travelling gave me my first taste of a Service Area on the A1. It is like a mini mall in the middle of nowhere. We bought lollies and a coffee - to keep us awake on the road.
Gina did the driving and I read the map, Iggy gave helpful suggestions from the back and we all found our way pretty well (more or less!).
:-)