Within 55 hours of setting out on our trip, we were home again, but we excelled ourselves in achieving our objectives by managing to go out for breakfast not just once, but twice.
We were up relatively early this morning as I was intending to take another run along the seafront promenade, but a tight calf suggested that maybe that wasn't the wisest plan. So instead we left Prestatyn before 9am and headed the few miles west to Rhyl. There we pulled into Morrison's car park and found that their fuel station sells LPG. With LPG being increasingly difficult to find in the UK, it was a bonus to stumble upon such a cheap source.
A stroll was had around the town (lots of charity shops) and along the seafront (much nicer than Prestatyn but completely dead with all of the businesses closed, whether due to the time of day, the time of year, the state of business, or various combinations thereof, we know not), before we repaired to an eatery for second breakfast. For the second time in two days we found ourselves somewhere that felt very safe from a Covid point of view - partiuclarly once the customers at the one other occupied table left and we had an entire room to ourselves.
Suitably fueled, we might then have wandered around a bit more, but it was just starting to spit with the rain that was forecast to last the rest of the day, so back to Bertie we headed and onwards to our next stop: a village just outside of Oswestry to pick up an internet purchase we'd made on Sunday night (more about that in a Project Erica post sometime soon). Arriving there an hour and a half earlier than scheduled, coffee and a crossword was had in the village car park whilst time was killed.
It was still raining when we got home, but it didn't take many minutes to unpack Bertie; we hadn't taken much with us.
Poor Bertie is now SORNed again. I'll be quite happy to re-tax him at the drop of a hat if it turns out that I've been essimistic in my expectations, and that we are in fact able to get away against sooner than anticipated.
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