UK2026: Day 3: Left!

We had an acceptable sleep last night until the alarm sounded at 0700. Damn you alarm! We have a schedule to keep. Breakfast at the cafe, clean up us, clean up the room and pack up. Off we march to Leicester Station to catch the Piccadilly Line to Kings Cross. No, it’s not a Harry Potter thing. At King’s Cross we boarded the LNER for Edinburgh. The fast one, only two other stops.

It was a lovely train ride with some beautiful scenery. Somehow I managed to book the backward facing seats. That was a bit dumb.

Funny story? A group of 3 got on the train find their seats were already taken. They had to go all the way to York (1.5 hours) to rectify that. In the old days they just threw them off the train.

In Edinburgh we hopped in our prearranged hire car for the drive south to Peebles. Peebles, not Pebbles! In Peebles we picked up our lodging for the week, our lovely little RV from Zoom Motorhome and Campervan Rentals. We went with Zoom as pretty much everything is included in the price. No nickel and dime crap. Just pounding 🙂 Maybe that doesn’t sound right. We picked up the RV and headed straight over to Tesco (200 meters away) where we provisioned with enough ginger snaps for the week. We did not get IronBru yet.

So yes, we are doing a spring van (like) trip. Welcome back to spring Milddogs.

And now the fun begins. All of these UK people drive on the left and we have no choice but to join in. So we did. Mrs Milddogs had just enough well timed “left” comments that we made it to our first overnight spot just outside Pitlochry. It’s just a little parking area overlooking the river Tummel. Lovely little spot.

We got situated, unpacked while hoping we can remember where we stuffed all of our things. Dinner was a tasty but simple charcuterie type deal plus the croissants Malcolm and Pippa (the Zoom owners) provided.

Post dinner I did a short but steep walk down to the river bank. It was pretty, but some assholes need to stop leaving their garbage in nature! They’ll ruin it for all of us.

We have enough cell signal that we don’t have to break out the Starlink mini yet. Wait, I bought the Starlink before we knew Elon was an A grade asshole. At the time he was just a B+ grade asshole. Oh no, is he reading this?

We are hoping for a quiet night sleep and then tomorrow we will push further north. What surprises await? Who knows?

Keep it left everyone!