Today didn’t go exactly as planned, we had hoped for an early finish to the working day so that we could hit the road, as we knew that we had a five hour drive ahead of us tonight. I finally got home from work at 7:30pm after a hectic day … not a good start. After driving through the night we arrived at the Travelodge in Holyhead (Wales) at 2:15am. Our route took us north to the top eastern point of Wales and then west through Wales, out to the peninsula where the Dublin ferry docks. The obvious advantage of traveling at that hour was that we were able to make good time, only sharing road space with the seemingly hundreds of trucks doing the long haul.
We stopped for a short break at one of the service points (truck stops) at about 11:30pm. Most of these places run 24 hours, however this particular one seemed to be definitely running on skeleton staff. We grabbed a bun and a coffee from Costa Coffee, however the competence of the service gave us the impression that his usual duty was sweeping the floors and clearing the tables, with no aspiration for anything more taxing. We were sure that he was only pressed into coffee service when the usual guy rang in sick. By the time the second coffee was served the first was cold and the heated buns had turned into cardboard.
HOLYHEAD : Wales : Population 11,300
Has the highest concentration of ancient standing stones and burial chambers in Britain. The ferry port handles 2 million passengers per year. There is evidence that that people have been sailing from here to Ireland for over 4,000 years. Dawn French was born here in 1957.
Once we had arrived in Holyhead we were glad that we had gone for the cheap accommodation as we only had four hours before we were required to check in at the ferry terminal next door. The Travelodge was basic, minimalist, and if we had been in any other state we would probably been a little less than satisfied, however it did serve its functional purpose for the night.
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