The excitement of my birthday weekend (the first of two, which is perhaps overly decadent) began on Friday with the trip from Norwich to Cardiff. After Liam had picked me up in his rather lovely car, of which much more on later, we collected Ross and headed to Greggs.
I get a free Greggs drink every week and I went for the Mint Mocha and it didn’t disappoint.
Liam had secretly planned the Saturday activity, but it was evident that it was likely to be heavily amended due to the rain. He went off to make his secret call and came back with a hamburger for me, which was suitably delicious. He’s a very good friend.
Safely into Banbury and the first charge of the weekend.
We had a short walk around Banbury and I’ve already posted about The Exchange pub and Banbury Cross.
We were meeting up with Richard at Gloucester Services and that proved to be just a little too upmarket for some of us, but Richard enjoyed his coffee as nothing is too upmarket for him.
I like services with a Greggs as I have simple tastes, but for those who want to buy artisan bread, there’s that option here.
We then drove to Tiny Rebel (by we, I mean Liam and Richard) which I’ve already written about. With that we arrived at Mercure Cardiff North hotel, but more about that in future posts….