The Point Is....
I had the best gelato yet from a shop in Covent Garden. Hazelnut and Biscotti flavours. Much yum.
But that's not the point.
We went to North Wales yesterday and I saw awesome Welsh mountains. These are not your snuggly fluffy Lake District mountains. These are your kick-you-in-the-face-and-nick-your-lunch-money kind of mountains. Proper mountains. We went around Beaumaris, which was very pretty because you could look across the Menai Straits and see mountains - which I now like to refer to as 'God in his Play-Doh stage' - which is a pretty unbeatable view. It's properly turning autumn, so all the mountain colours were quite extraordinary.
But that's not the point.
The point is, I drove 80 miles from Wolverley to the Oxford services on Junction 8A of the M40. It took just over 2 hours. I went through Evesham, Moreton-in-Marsh, Chipping Norton (still no sign of Clarkson bombing around) and Oxford on the A roads. I went up that bloody Fish Hill on a 1:11.
And I was doing 60 mph, in 5th gear, listening to Chicane's Saltwater. It is the single most important moment in my life to date.
THAT is the point.
But that's not the point.
We went to North Wales yesterday and I saw awesome Welsh mountains. These are not your snuggly fluffy Lake District mountains. These are your kick-you-in-the-face-and-nick-your-lunch-money kind of mountains. Proper mountains. We went around Beaumaris, which was very pretty because you could look across the Menai Straits and see mountains - which I now like to refer to as 'God in his Play-Doh stage' - which is a pretty unbeatable view. It's properly turning autumn, so all the mountain colours were quite extraordinary.
But that's not the point.
The point is, I drove 80 miles from Wolverley to the Oxford services on Junction 8A of the M40. It took just over 2 hours. I went through Evesham, Moreton-in-Marsh, Chipping Norton (still no sign of Clarkson bombing around) and Oxford on the A roads. I went up that bloody Fish Hill on a 1:11.
And I was doing 60 mph, in 5th gear, listening to Chicane's Saltwater. It is the single most important moment in my life to date.
THAT is the point.