I went to Birmingham today.
Yes, I know.
Commiserations and all that.
Anyway.
I went to Birmingham today.
And it wasn’t even the wrong side of Birmingham.
It was to our depot on the Castle Vale/Warmley Ash (eastern) side of town.
A distance of 50 miles.
The last time I did this trip – about six weeks ago – I set off at 6am.
And arrived at 8.55am.
That’s three hours, to you.
Three hours to cover 50 miles.
Averaging a tad under 17mph.
I would have been quicker on a horse.
*pauses for hot chocolate*
Today I did the journey again.
47 minutes, door to door.
That’s forty seven minutes.
Not the 180 minutes it took me last time.
How are we supposed to plan our journeys, when the spread for a 50-mile journey is from 47 minutes to three hours?
Ah yes, you might say, but the last time you did the journey there was that pile-up on the motorway.
No there wasn’t.
I checked with Highways Agency.
Anyway.
I’m due back in Birmingham in a couple of weeks.
It’ll be interesting to see how long the 50-mile journey will take.
I feel your pain.
Almost daily.
And you say Birmingham has a right and a wrong side? Intriguing.
The right side of Birmingham is the side closest to where I’m travelling from. The wrong side is the side on the opposite point of the compass.
I was being facetious. 🙂
I know
The right side, according to any normal map, would be the east side. The left side would be the west side. Pretty simple, really.