After the last trip in February I really wasn't sure if we would make it to this tie for a variety of reasons but money plays a big part in any decision making process!
I got some money for my birthday in February and that started me wondering.....and then I asked Jennifer if she might be interested in a trip to Braehead.....talk about snowballing from there - before I knew it she had booked tickets and off we go!
Unfortunately I didn't manage such a good hotel deal - but the Campanile was the same price as the travelodge and apparently much better so we decided to give it a try.
We left home around 11am on Thursday and headed off to Sheffield to collect Jennifer.
We had a number of issues - roadworks near Bristol, an accident on the M1 causing huge queues and then we managed to get lost in Sheffield as the satnav wanted to go a really odd way to Jennifer's house!
We eventually picked up Jennifer at 5 - an hour later than originally planned :(
This then meant we had to deal with rush hour traffic in Sheffield on Maundy Thursday which was not the best move but we made it out of there and the rest of the journey was less difficult.....until we got to Braehead!
The satnav refused to find the hotel so I used the airport as a substitute for most of the journey then attempted to navigate the last section (using google maps).....Rob decided that he would ignore my instructions and somehow we ended up back on the M8 - heading back towards Glasgow.....!
Luckily we then found the hotel - Jennifer will confirm that it was more luck than judgement that eventually got us there!
We checked in and headed off to bed...!
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