An easy day for me today.
We once again depart the hotel at 09:15 and twenty minutes later we are at the marvellous Beamish Museum, a working museum of life a hundred years ago.
Time for Malcolm to sell his raffle tickets before it opens at ten and then time for me to carry on with the brochure.
While here I meet up with Karl who also runs his own business but ofers a few more holidays than we do. His company is called Jay and Kay Coach Tours and we seem to hit it off. Stops me working though!
We are away from Beamish at 14:00 and I am then going to drop the majority of the group in Durham and take the rest back to the hotel before returning to Durham to pick the rest up.
As we drive onto the A1M slip road we pass three parked police cars who seem to be waiting for somebody. We speculate that it might be Prince Charles who is in the area today. As soon as we join the motorway two of the police cars come up the hard shoulder and pull out in front of me and the vehicle in the outside lane and slow down with their lights flashing. The traffic that was in front of us disappears into the distance as we follow the police cars. This is all very exciting! Suddenly they accelerate away from me and we start to spped up. All of a sudden a dirty Mondeo comes speeding up my inside on the hard shoulder quickly followed by another police car.
Yet another police car pulls in front of us and slows the two lanes down again. In the distance we can see the three ploice cars box the Mondeo in forcing him to stop in the outside lane. We are slowed to a stop as well.
Policemen pour out of the cars and before you know what is happening all of the vehicles are driven away and we resume normal speed.
As we pull off at Durham the cars and policemen are parked off to our right by a motorway compound. All the policemen are standing outside their cars. I'm intrigued to find out what it was all about!
After dropping in the city centre and the hotel I go to fill up with diesel. Am not sure whether to wait until tomorrow morning but decide to put some in now and keep my fingers crossed tonight. There is no commercial pump so I can only put in 200 litres which is ok as it is enough to get home with and nowhere near a full tank to be robbed!
Before dinner this evening Malcolm is having his raffle in the lounge and all money raised goes to the Macmillan Nurses, a very worthy cause.
The lady who lost her cardigan has now lost her stick and is asking the receptionist to call I'm not sure who. I pop out to the coach and find it on the rack above her seat! No blue cardy though!
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What an exciting day - I thought I was going to read that the police had pulled you over!!! That poor lady who loses things - I wonder what next!! Well done to Malcolm for doing a raffle with proceeds going to the Macmillan nurses - they are brilliant dedicated nurses.
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