I set off earlyish yesterday, not too early, no point arriving at the Fleet Air Arm museum before it opened. I stopped for cake & a coffee at "The Udder Farm Shop" on the A30, which is where I put the roof on because the rain started.
The traffic wasn't too bad in Salisbury & Shaftsbury & I got to the museum pretty much on time. Through the gates, not much in the car park, but it was opening time on a wet Tuesday.......
There's a long divided staircase to the entrance, so I walked up one side, the automatic doors opened - the next door was locked. Maybe that's the exit? I walked down & up the other side, the automatic doors opened, next door locked. Weird.
I googled the opening time & found it was the following day because HRH had died. Why not put a sign at the bottom of the stairs? Or in the car park?
So I now had three hours to kill on the journey, no point hurrying. With the roof up & too many layers on it was just unpleasant, but I stopped in Dartmouth for a wander & an ice cream (in the rain, because British). On the way out of town, I'd planned to use a back road, but it was closed & I ended up on one of the little roads up to the top
- Dartmouth
of town - 8ft between houses, cobbled, 1 in 4 gradient, with the roof on, pedestrians, the windscreen & my glasses steaming up, not ideal.
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Next stop Bigbury, where I had a walk on the beach in the rain & finally to Wembury.
So day one was a bit of a trial, but I'd made it & the forecast for tomorrow was better!
