After the usual hotel breakfast we packed the car and headed off out of Seahouses and this sun was shining and blue sky everywhere, at least for a while. We topped up the fuel tank to avoid doing so in the A1M where they rip u off like mad. We then headed off via country lane to the A1M in the direction of our next paned stop near Rutland Waters.
What I did not mention in yesterdays blog was that we had decided to only book the first five nights and then make decisions on where to go next, either stay in Northumberland, or somewhere else entirely and we had decided to to visit the County of Rutland which we believe is one of the smallest County in the United Kingdom and a County we had not visited so that seemed like a plan. So we started looking for Hotels and you go from cheapish B&B thro very expensive £ 300 per night for just the room, and then via the internet I stumbled upon an offer from Expedia , which I thought was for a room at £ 120 per night which seemed to good to mis but also aware that Hotels often prefer you book direct which I tried to do but their website says fully booked and when I phoned them go the same answer. So I nearly gave up but then went back to the Expedia site and studied the offer which turned out to be a wooden three bedroom lodge with fully equipped kitchen and with large lounge area all for £ 120. So with a great deal of trepidation I booked it and hoped all would be Ok.
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Anyway we headed South on the A1M with Tom Tom taking us off to avoid a significant queue due to extensive road works until we reached our exit to Greetham. One small rather surprising thing we noticed both Northbound and Southbound that there were two large sex shops with extensive parking so lord knows that goes on there. we also passed Trophy Motors who had at least 40 or 50 MGF cars.
We arrived at the Golf Club and were given the key to Lodge Number 5 and we trundled down the road and located our lodge and boy were we happy. It was very large , almost as large as our house in sq ft terms, so brilliant discovery. For dinner we went to the club house for something to eat, they had a limited menu and it was quiet whilst we were there but we were early as at 7.30 pm they were expecting about 20 people to show up.
Back to the lodge and we watched a film with Tom Hanks in a film called ‘A man called Otto’, which was very good and made you think.
So to bed we go with plans to tour the lakes tomorrow.
