I seem to be having a week of incidents...
On my return journey from dropping my Dad off at hospital I forgot that one of the junctions had changed into a roundabout and merrily took the wrong turning. I realised immediately but the SatNav had already recalculated. So rather than turn around I decided to go with the new route. This turned out to be the narrowest country lanes you could imagine with hardly any houses and no signposts!!!
Did I say it was night time and I had to dodge the gales and rain??
All of a sudden the road changed from a winding country lane to a straight bit of road and a train was hurtling towards me on the other side of the road!!! EEEK!!! When I recovered from the shock I realised there was actually a fence between me and the train. Then the SatNav asked me to do a right turn across the path of the train... Thankfully although steep and narrow it was actually a bridge over the train track.
The moral of the story is: when travelling on the only main road do not do a diversion – turn back! But then again hindsight is a wonderful thing ;-)
When I asked my brother if he wanted to relive the adventure with me he declined. I can’t imagine why ;-)
PS: The second part of my delivery turned up and was left with neighbours. I had to ring up and remind the gas man he was supposed to be bringing chemicals for my system, but now that is all done and I have to wait and see if it cures the Woodpecker!!!
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Laughing, reminds me when I took my children on a Sunday drive. They asked me if I knew where I was going and I said, "Of course I used to live in this area". I ended up 100km north of where I was supposed to be. :-)
Oh scary! I don't have sat nav and rely on my own instincts to get lost!
Nunyaa at least your kids felt safe ;-)
Liz I didn't rely on the SatNav ;-) I can drive or I can navigate but the two at the same time ;-) mmm complicated...
Oh! and I know this route very well, it's just one of the junctions had changed!!!
Gosh, cherrypie, glad you survived it! You're right - it's always easy to be wise afterwards. Looking forward to the next installment on the "woodpecker"! Love from Sicily x
Thank You Welshcakes :-)
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