After enjoying a glorious, if mostly car free summer, this was too good an opportunity to miss. Our last trip to Great Yarmouth was the disastrous episode of diesel in the Hot Rod's petrol tank and this trip in the Astra looked like it was heading the same way. After enjoying the splendour of yet another fabulous sunrise coming up over the A421 and keeping one eye on the engine management light that had appeared on the dashboard in Bedford, we realised nearly half way into the 120 mile journey that the engine was losing power. I didn't dare stop as I didn't fancy another roadside vigil. At least if we broke down in Yarmouth, we could still enjoy ourselves while we got the car fixed. It was only at the the end of the journey, I realised the engine had actually gone into limp mode. Once I switched the engine off and restarted it, everything was fine! Nevertheless, the car has been put in for its service and MOT today and it turned out to be nothing more than a faullty sensor.
I love being at the seaside in the early morning, when only the local dog walkers are out. Dave and I found a nice little café with an outdoor terrace overlooking the beach and we enjoyed a bacon sarnie and tea. Not a bad start to the day. The weather was glorious and we enjoyed walking the full length of the promenade up to the Pleasure Beach and back, sunbathed on the beach for most of the aafternoon, after eating a meal of average tasting fish and chips, strolled the other way to the Waterways, which look lovely and were well worth the cost of the lottery funded restoration project. It got chilly late afternoon, so we headed back to Bedford and arrived home without incident.
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