ROAD TRIP When a global pandemic makes reaching destinations by air less than appealing, what’s the obvious answer? That’s right - the road trip. Nick Dalton reached for the road atlas and set a course due north…
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ny other year, we’d probably be drawn to somewhere Mediterranean, and be looking forward to a ‘leisurely’ balance of deliberate inactivity and inevitable over-consumption. It’s a time-proven recipe for getting away
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from things and sufficiently agreeable to be repeated annually, with perhaps the most significant concern being ‘which language do you fancy stumbling over this time?’ Recent world events had something to say on this topic, obviously. The sole ‘Plan B’ in either of our minds was
to dust off an idea we’d discounted frequently in the past for being ‘a bit difficult’; Yes, the extremities of the British isles are as awash with natural beauty as many exotic destinations, but was it really worth driving all the way to them? The forced hand of 2020 would help us arrive at a definitive answer.
