Happy for Traffic Jams
Having had my driving license high-handedly removed by the DVLA due to incapacity. I've been laid up for a year with a serious illness so I've been stranded on a bleak publess mountainside in Wales.
After long appeals, I got my license back in winter but I've been too weak to drive far. Since "stay at home" has been lifted in Wales and non-essential sales reopened, I took a chance and drove to England to restock my much depleted whisky supply (Wales has minimum pricing, hence worth the petrol to go to England.) So I stopped off in Queensferry on the border to buy petrol, socks, jogging pants and tee-shirts, which is all I've worn for 12 months.On the way back, I got caught in rush hour traffic. Yes, they're back! Rush hour traffic jams are back on the English/Welsh border. It's a sure sign the Pandemic is receding. I never thought I'd welcome the return of the welsh border traffic jams at Deeside ! But I do now, it means the economy is still ticking away, it's not all dead, but it was very sad to pass the boarded up and unlit ale houses.How I would love to slip into The Swan for a couple of beer and a cigarette outside. It's shameful what they have done, but if we can get through this, we can get through anything.
I assume this is on the a55?
I assume it started raining as usual.
Can't see i've ever thought to myself "What i REALLY miss more than anything is being stuck on the A55" in my life...
The duty free thing is the same here, people are running low on everything from spirits to cider and just hanging on until the 27th where they can do a border run to Ross or Hereford to restock.
That said, the traffic jams never went away this lockdown. I've not noticed the roads any quieter at all throughout. Very different to the last 2 (or 3..i lose count) lockdowns.
Can't see i've ever thought to myself "What i REALLY miss more than anything is being stuck on the A55" in my life...
The 55 is know around here is called the top road and is roughly equivalent to your heads of valley road. There is also the coast road which is a perfect economic barometer. If the traffic back up at Queensferry, things are booming, when not, we're having hard times.
The duty free thing is the same here, people are running low on everything from spirits to cider and just hanging on until the 27th where they can do a border run to Ross or Hereford to restock.
Well a litre of whisky is £15 instead of £20, so I saved a tenner on half a gallon of whisky, by going 5 miles, hardly worth it, given the risk of attracting the attention of coppers, but it's a place where the entrance to the car park is in Wales and the door of the store is in England.But it's worth it to evade the Welsh rules, I'm thinking I should do all my shopping in England where rules are more sensible.
Anyway, it was a trial run since I'll be going out there nearly every day on and after April 12, to use the beer gardens of Chester.
