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Essex To Cumbria Road Trip (Photos) (25781 Views)

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shaybebaby(f): 12:01pm On May 24, 2024
Journey time: 7 hours..normally 6 but guess there'll be traffic today because of the bank holiday.

Distance: 350 miles.

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shaybebaby(f): 12:03pm On May 24, 2024
I've done this trip several times but we intend to drive without stops except we need comfort breaks.

So snacks at the ready.

Home made sandwiches
Fruits
Water
Sausage Rolls
Rice Cakes
Olives
Crisps
Lucozade

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shaybebaby(f): 12:07pm On May 24, 2024
Essex is one of the flattest and driest counties in the UK, Cumbria the opposite, mountainous and the wettest.

I'll add pictures once we arrive but in the meantime. Enjoy the pics of the landscape as I traverse from south to North.

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shaybebaby(f): 12:09pm On May 24, 2024
Same colour but old versus new😃

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shaybebaby(f): 12:12pm On May 24, 2024
Essex countryside. You'll know the difference once I'm north.

It'll look the same but...with loads of sheep😆

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shaybebaby(f): 12:15pm On May 24, 2024
Mr Bentley oppressing me🤩

Bentley or a Harley?🤔

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shaybebaby(f): 12:23pm On May 24, 2024
England is such a green country..but it has to be. With all the rain we get.

In spring, early ☀️ summer, it is truly a beautiful place.

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shaybebaby(f): 12:48pm On May 24, 2024
Some funny places names we have. Drove past a place called Trumpington😂

Let's hope the place smells better and is not scandalous like the former POTUS.

In the meantime, do you think God lives in Godmanchester?

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shaybebaby(f): 2:29pm On May 24, 2024
Go straight for 127 miles ( Roughly 200km)..Do not go.

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shaybebaby(f): 2:37pm On May 24, 2024
River Trent, Midlands.

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shaybebaby(f): 3:19pm On May 24, 2024
True ❤️

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shaybebaby(f): 3:37pm On May 24, 2024
Coming up the outskirts of Leeds.

4 and half hours so far on the road and we still have 3 hrs to go 😩😩😩

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shaybebaby(f): 3:38pm On May 24, 2024
Another one...but a classic.

Is the Universe trying to send me a Bentley?

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cococandy(f): 3:46pm On May 24, 2024
Following kiss

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shaybebaby(f): 3:46pm On May 24, 2024
Where's Wally?

Leeds, the last city before we hit Cumbria.

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shaybebaby(f): 4:02pm On May 24, 2024
🫣🫣

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Teamfrosh1201: 4:26pm On May 24, 2024
Nice pictures.

Please drive safely.

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shaybebaby(f): 4:53pm On May 24, 2024
Let me confess, this is our third stop on the way.

First stop for a comfort break.

2nd to get some more water.

3rd stop to get a USB-C car adaptor.

Stop number 3 below.

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shaybebaby(f): 4:55pm On May 24, 2024
cococandy:
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Thanks sweetie.

I'm hoping it's still light when we arrive because the lakes are truly beautiful.

If not, I'll more pics tomorrow.

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shaybebaby(f): 4:55pm On May 24, 2024
Teamfrosh1201:
Nice pictures.

Please drive safely.

Thank you☺️

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pocohantas(f): 4:58pm On May 24, 2024
Lovely pictures. Thanks to Coco for sharing. This section has been all about japa in the past few years. Nobody travels and updates us. All we wanna know now is the european country we can enter with 2m Naira.


Nice one Shay!

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shaybebaby(f): 5:21pm On May 24, 2024
3 miles to Scotch Corner, then we turn left, heading west to Penrith.

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shaybebaby(f): 5:28pm On May 24, 2024
There is no "i better my neighbour" with these people, they are their own Neighbour.

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ednut1(m): 5:30pm On May 24, 2024
UK is small and populated they say but see greens everywhere 😀

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shaybebaby(f): 5:33pm On May 24, 2024
Scotch Corner at last and now sat in Traffic....again! ( sigh)

But you can tell we are up north now because you can just about see the undulations in the skyline.

That and the fact that the sky is grey!

Been wanting to capture so clearer pics of houses..

Manage these ones..everytime I see something nice, bush has covered the view before I can snap pishure.

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Dundalk(m): 5:38pm On May 24, 2024
Following.... Meanwhile Wotowotoman come with a popcorn.. wink
Proserpina: 5:55pm On May 24, 2024
pocohantas:
Lovely pictures. Thanks to Coco for sharing. This section has been all about japa in the past few years. Nobody travels and updates us. All we wanna know now is the european country we can enter with 2m Naira.


Nice one Shay!

The accuracy! grin grin

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Proserpina: 5:56pm On May 24, 2024
Lemme book space cheesy

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shaybebaby(f): 5:57pm On May 24, 2024
Got a picture of a hare.
You can just about see it in the bottom left hand side of the pic 😁

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shaybebaby(f): 6:02pm On May 24, 2024
Aaah, I promised picture of the country side with sheep..abeg no mind say na their yansh view I provide.🤣

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shaybebaby(f): 6:09pm On May 24, 2024
Camel in the UK?

Okay, I get that it is being kept on a Farm.

Also an Alpaca thrown in good measure.

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shaybebaby(f): 6:28pm On May 24, 2024
Tell me this doesn't look like heaven. And we aren't yet in the lakes.

Could you live here?

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