England Road Trip - 30th of April to 2nd of May

Under the influence of alcohol, which I do not recommend, my housemates decided to have a road trip, basically its UK road trip, but due to unforseen circumstances, the callsign had changed to England Road Trip, and still its fun though!!

Here's the map of our trip we've been through, supposing we should head for Scotland after leaving Blackpool, Lancashire, but the driver (one and only) doesn't feel very well after 2 days of driving, so he decided to drive back to Canterbury and forget Scotland.

Our trip starts from Canterbury, Kent. Our first stop is Brighton, East Sussex. With the help from a satnav, off we go!!! But I doubt with the capabilities of this little twat... because there is so much incidents made by this thing...

Being the secondary navigator on the first leg of the route, I too used my navigator, but it let me down when we hit rural places in UK, thought 3G services will be good. 

Brighton rock, some say its famous, for a candy, its really harder than rock, and now I know why eating sweets will results holes and breakage of your teeth.....

Then we continue towards Land's End, Penzance, Cornwall. Which is south west of England, it is also the most westerly part of England, not Southerly part of England. On the way towards Land's End...

This place, is a tourist trap!!! We paid an "Entrance parking fee", where nobody else care, but we doesn't want to get a nice parking fine to ruin the trip, inside the "park", there's no one around, its like a blackhole had sucked every living organism up and left the buildings remaining intact... Everything is locked up and deserted, even the toilets... 

So we head towards Newquay, Cornwall, which is further up about an hour drive from Land's End to our first night stop in a hostel. That hostel is by far the best I had been through, about 10 quids a night, although we had a room for 10 people, its not peak time yet so there's only 3 of us and a girl that travels alone from Canada. The main point is, normally you go for hotels, pay much more than in hostel, and get a crappy garden view or sometimes rubbish view, but what we get is a seaside view... facing east, which a very nice sunrise view when you are awake....

We headed the seaside and the quiet early morning town for a walk before the breakfast, we took the shortcut way from out hostel towards the beach, its not just a shortcut way anyway, the small slippery rocks, full of seaweeds just makes you hard to walk through, having only one pair of not-waterproof shoes, I have to be extra careful not to slipped and fell and get myself wet... But we got through eventually... about an hour later, when we got back to the hostel for breakfast, we look down the pathway we walked past, its now full with sea water, the rise of tide in merely 30-45mins time... luckily.....

The view of the hostel from the beach...

After breakfast, we continue our journey, towards Liverpool, Merseyside. Driver isn't feeling well after driving that much, and so does the satnav.... its showing us that we are nowhere near a road...

80 miles per hour on a motorway with the hood down does not feels good.... 

On the way again, passing Bristol...

Then, driver said shall we go past Wales rather than just go straight towards Liverpool??? Well, the map shows where we went...  and we reach Wales, with gibberish signboards.. luckily there are English with them.. 

More gibberish...

Even this is gibberish...

Well, we did manage to get back to English.... sometimes the people that puts signposts just doesn't want to walk further down the road, in other words they are lazy and just put the signs up and leave...

The red colours on the road means it is telling us that there is a massive jam on M6 motorway and we are going to stuck there for some time and ask us to enjoy the scenery of Birmingham outskirts...

Passing Birmingham... Hello Maverick!!!..

Goodbye Maverick!!!

Arriving Liverpool, it appears that the government just doesn't like anymore people to come into Liverpool, maybe they are just sick of people moving in... The houses at there are like this...

The whole road of houses are just................ scary........... you know????

Went out for a light dinner and a drink in Liverpool city at night, nothing much honestly, just like London.. 

The next day we walk around in Liverpool docks, along the mersey that got famous sang by the Beatles..

Looks like a fire escape ladder right??? but its not... its just there to tell people if there is a fire, there's no way out.....

A lighthouse boat.. 

Sometimes we just love english do we???

A very special mail box from RoyalMail...

And we continue our journey again, towards Blackpool, Lancashire. Well, its just more amusement parks than Brighton. And pubs and bars are open in the day, comparing to other pubs that is not open until night falls, which more drunk people will be around all day... 

Finally, driver beh tahan, so he heads back to Canterbury, Kent, and we had to follow.... and therefore we had to leave out Scotland from our trip, its disappointing because we are so close to Scotland, but we just couldn't make it.. 

On the way back, i notice part of the stretch of the motorway have these..

its actually for the drivers to keep their distance from bumper to bumper.. even though i don't see most of them did it, but its quite useful though.. for safety drivers, you can actually keep your distance, because normally we are told to keep 2 cars apart, but how can you estimate that????????

Lastly, Dartford bridge in Kent, looking over the sunset of London Thames Valley skyline...

iPhone 3G didn't really gave me up, it helps me a lot.. but the battery is quite short live if you use the map for a long period, where I have to recharge it everyday during the trip...

England (+Wales) Road Trip - DONE! 

Stopped at 5 cities, and had been through 27 Counties.

曾经，有人说过，

世界上最闷的故事是听别人的旅游故事，

而我自己觉得世界上最闷的故事是听别人的爱情故事。