Mawse’s ScotBlog

Ive finally got some time to update the ScotBlog with a few ramblings of the trip.  This was spose to be done while I was on the road, but all but one ‘free’ access points were locked down.  Now thats just not playing if you ask me.

Dont forget to have a look in the ‘photos’ section

Anyway —–

Set off on the road to Scotty land along the M1 and then A1 to get me onto the A66.  Now that is such a cracking road.  It was a tad misty/drizzly up on the tops, but as I came down the other side towards The Lakes it brightened up.

having a break on the A66

After a quick blast up the M6 finally crossed the border into Scotland.  Now if you and not from these parts crossing this border is far from complicated……. There is no border only a sign saying ‘Welcome to Scotland’

Abington services were a good place for another break as I was to be leaving the motorway behind for a while and picking up the A73.  Dont really know why I opted for this route as it takes in quite a few built up areas and the going was of the slow kind (traffic lights, queues etc), but it cut a bit of a corner and got me off the motorway for a while.

On this part of the trip there is an amazing lack of photos - dont know why, but there you go.