{"id":2526,"date":"2021-04-09T20:47:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T19:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonsdiary.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=2526"},"modified":"2021-04-10T01:32:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T00:32:34","slug":"northumberland-tour-2007-page-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/simonsdiary.co.uk\/wordpress\/northumberland-tour-2007-page-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Northumberland Tour 2007 Page 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northumberland Tour 2007<\/h1>\n

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Day 5<\/h1>\n

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Dear Reader,<\/p>\n

Yet again I was too incompetent to finish this diary off properly at the time and although I’m sure I did once write a “Day 5” and publish it, I can not find it now! So here’s a skimpy one to make up for its loss. In short, the next day we drove back down to London via the Scottish Borders,<\/p>\n

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\nLarry likes the styling of some of the gnomes’ beards<\/p>\n


\nIf any foreigners have got this far it’s safe to assume they already know which side of the road we drive on.<\/p>\n

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On the border we found a man not only playing bag pipes but also selling cds of his greatest tracks<\/p>\n

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As I looked across at him on the other side of the road a coach load of people gathered around him – obviously competing with each other as to whom could last the longest – and I noticed a man with an arm missing walking around with a camera…. could it be… we are drawn to the pie-eyed piper? I was obviously in need a holiday!<\/p>\n

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After a while we rode on… Larry, me and my sturdy steed the Saab<\/p>\n

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\nThis man said he tested motorbikes for magazines and that he’d heard of my website, so that gets a photo of him included even though I doubt it’s my website he’s really heard of, he’s probably getting it confused with google or something. Even so I was very grateful.<\/p>\n


\nLarry admires the view….<\/p>\n

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Of the filling station<\/p>\n


\nWhere they sell edible Sheep Poo… the locals think it’s extremely funny to tell tourists it’s chocolate.<\/p>\n

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We stopped off at Lee’s place, he’s the friend of mine who came on\u00a0the first of these travel diaries to New York\u00a0<\/a>so it kind of fitting to end this one with him.<\/p>\n

After being fed and watered I bombed (at the legal speed limit of course) to London where I dropped Larry off then headed home.<\/p>\n

It’s now two years later… and instead of writing travel diaries I’ve been focusing more on my “Autobiography”,\u00a0so if you fancy punishing yourself with more of my writing click here<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Anyway thanks for reading.<\/p>\n

Simon<\/p>\n

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