I had a long courier ride yesterday to Glasgow some 620 miles in all. The ride itself went very well and the wather was kind to me - no rain. I set off at 7AM and arrived in Glasgow at about 11:45 with one fuel stop along the way and got home around 5:45PM.
Now there is nothing exciting in the above but there are two other things I wanted to mention:
The first being the massive variations in fuel prices in the country. I filled up at our local BP garage the evening before this ride and paid £1.03 per litre, en-route I filled up at the Southwaite services on the M6 in Cumbria and paid a whopping £1.08 per litre, this is some difference equating to a difference of £1.05 for a full fill up of 21 litres, could have paid one days London parking fee with that :-)
The second reason is that the route took me along the M74 through Lockerbie, I was last there in December 1988 as part of the team of service people looking for passenger remains and aircraft wreckage after Pan Am 103 was bombed out of the sky on 21 December 1998, it's sent a real chill up my spine.
Anyway safe riding
Dave
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