The North

Time to blog it up again. Me and a friend went up to "the north" on Friday to visit a mate for the weekend. We debated megabus, train and even flying up (same price as train!) but eventually settled for my citroen saxo.

The traffic started a few miles north of London.

But it was ok, we had two ipods (one fully charged) a banana and some dried apricots to last me until my first service break - keeping it healthy after a midnight snack the previous night. Me and two other friends shared a family meal deal from a local chicken shop and my share consisted of :

- 3 pieces of fried chicken
-4 spicy wings
-1 chicken burger
-1 portion of chips

A RIDICULOUS amount of food for one person, normally I am satisfied with just the bloody chicken burger for gods sake!

Anyway. As we set off I made it clear to my passenger that we were going to stop for a toilet break soonish as i was desperate for a slash and hungry! We hit several severe tailbacks, but myself and James had enough banter to last. Including the debate of where the North actually starts. Apparently some people in Grimsby and Lincoln actually consider themselves southerners (wishful thinking!).

Just under 7 hours, 3 major traffic jams and NO toilet break later we arrived in Teeside. A nightmare journey but after a cold can of fosters and bowl spaghetti bolognaise prepared by Alex's wife I soon forgot all about it.

The weekend was pretty good! The house is nice, the pubs were good and we actually had a mattress each to sleep on - I was fully expecting a bare wooden floor, which to be honest I have now become very accustomed to.

There was some very good banter as usual but im struggling to remember it all right now. One that sticks in mind is James pretending he is an American on an "excursion" or something to get girls to take our picture. It worked well until a polish (yes polish girl in teeside - what are the chances) questioned his actions.

Drive back was fine - 4 hours, I micro-slept most of the way.

The next blog will probably document the strangest night of my life so far....Pointless bent. Check regularly to find out more!