Ferry Meadows

Monday, 29th January 2018

We are booked in to Chertsey Camping and Caravan Club Site, from Wednesday, to visit son Gary, Susana, Gabriel and Salma (it being Salma's second birthday on Thursday 1st February)

The plan is to stay somewhere between home and Chertsey for a couple of days.

I have an inclination to head for the Lee Valley Dobbs Weir Site, it is right alongside what looks like good cycling, alongside the River Lee Navigation. I have seen several programs on TV, extolling the virtues of the Lee Valley Country Park and surrounding area.

An early start, light traffic and a lunch stop, with home made soup, provided by Kathleen's kitchen skills, everything is going well, we are south of Grantham, and on target to arrive at Lee Valley by about 16:30.

Ominously, we are overtaken by an ambulance, siren wailing and blue lights flashing, and we can see, that traffic coming to a halt up ahead. It is 14:00.

We spend the next two hours stationery on the A1, the only excitement being having to move over as far as possible, to allow two Police vehicles to reach the accident scene, and, occasional road traffic reports on the radio, telling us, there is a hold up on the A1 southbound, at Stamford. We already know that, we are sitting in it.

The traffic eventually begins to move at 16:00, and there is no sign of any incident, not even some roadside debris.

There is no way we are going to reach Lee Valley in daylight, so, Kathleen rings the nearest CAMC site, which happens to be Ferry Meadows CAMC site.

So, that is how we come to be just outside of Peterborough, clearly, we are not destined to visit Lee Valley, at least, not on this trip!