Road Trip!!

Hello everyone! Today I have to tell you about our amazing roadtrip in the UK! :)



On this road trip we drove a 2014 Chevrolet Camaro ss ZL1 with a turbo charged 580hp engine. In my opinion the car is fantastic. It does 0-60 in only 3,9 seconds. The interior is also very nice and the comfort is astonishing.
Here is a picture of the car.

Day 1:We left Cardiff as soon as we rented the car. Then we drove our nice Camaro to LANG. LANG is a restaurant in The Shard, a viewing building in London.We had a nice meal, it has a so nice view so we enjoyed our meal looking at beautiful London.

After this meal, we went to Oxford to look at the nice streets, and we ate some Belgian waffles for dessert. Then we had to go to an intense football match! Arsenal - Real Madrid! The match was played at Emirates a BEAUTIFUL stadium.

The game ended 3-3. One of the most intense matches I have ever seen. After the match, we went to a pub. We felt that we had to drink some beer after this match! We went to the bar The Hoop and Grapes. We had a good time there, very fun! After this we went back to the hotel for a small drink.

We wore so tired after a long day with a lot of action, so we went to bed before a new exciting day. Corinthia Hotel London, was the hotel we slept in.

The route for this day.

Day 2:We left London early in the morning. We were heading for Nottingham and then the plan was to stay there for some hours and then go to Liverpool where we would stay for two days. We drove for approximately three and a half hours to Nottingham. Nottingham is in the middle of England and not a too great of a detour. On the way out of London the traffic was heavy and there was a terrible queue. We realized that it was not really a smart move to book a hotel in the middle of a city with over eight million inhabitants who drive on the left side of the road. We were close to many accidents on our way, but fortunately we came out of the city alive.We drove on the highway to Nottingham, with only some small stops to fill fuel and we ate once in in a café by the road. The food was terrible. We got some wet sandwiches with ham, cheese and some kind of very bad tasting omelette. When we finally arrived in Nottingham, we went to the Robin Hood museum. Vegard is a very big Robin Hood fan, so he loved the museum very much. We ended up spending so much time in the museum that we had to use much less time in the rest of Nottingham and go straight to Liverpool.We arrived in Liverpool right before midnight and checked in to the hotel. We were very tired after the long ride but we convinced ourselves that is was the best if we could get something to eat. Per fell asleep just before we left so we had to wake him, but he refused to get out of the bed. I went with Vegard down to a kebab restaurant some blocks away.

John Lennons house.

The route for this day.

Day 3:We woke around eleven and missed the breakfast with only some minutes. We were looking forward to the football match that would happen later that night. We ate at some café and watched the local life. The streets were mostly empty but that was probably because it was in the middle of the week. When we had finished eating, we went to John Lennon’s home. It was cool to look at the place he grew up. The place crawled with tourists. After we finished, we went to some other café to have lunch. The food there was perfect. Eggs and bacon with a lot of other garniture. Then we went back to the hotel and got ready for the match.The match began at half past eight. We came one hour before the match started, and we had booked premium tickets. The view from our seats was amazing. The match was Liverpool versus Barcelona. In the end, the score was 3-1 to Liverpool. When the match ended, we went back to the hotel because we had a long trip ahead of us the next day.




Day 4:After 5 hours and 335 km on the road. We finally arrived to our final destination, Edinburgh, Scotland. We had big plans for this day. Edinburgh was a hectic city with much traffic and noise. We had to drive around the city in our yellow Camaro for a while to find our hotel, we had chosen Waldorf Astoria Edinburgh - The Caledonian to be the best hotel in the city and this was the place, we would stay for the night. When we had parked our car, we walked to the hotel reception to check in. We had paid 4500 Norwegian kroners to get the best and biggest room. We were going to sleep well the last night of our trip.After we had checked in, we went out to eat a burger on Mc Donald’s. We had planned that we should go and play some “bubble soccer”, this is a game of football, with a giant ball around your body, and you can bump as hard as you want into others without causing any damage on the other players. Sverre scored five goals in the match. We played football for 3 hours.

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, this is a Military musical spectacular filled with talented performers, pipes, drums, and visual lights and fireworks. This was the last thing we had planned to do this road trip. The location is magnificent; the weather was fine & warm. In addition, the artists & bands were extremely entertaining! After this amazing experience, we went back to our fantastic car and drove back to our hotel to get some sleep before our flight home the next morning.This was an amazing show.

The Royal Military tattoo.

                                       This is the distance we drove day 4 in our great muscle car.

Day 5:
This was our last day in UK, our flight were supposed to leave Edinburgh at 13.00. We had a lot to do before we went to the airport. First, we ate a fantastic breakfast at our hotel; it contained a lot of bacon, eggs and sausages. After the breakfast we carried our luggage to our yellow Camaro, before we drove to the place we had to give the car back to the rent company, we rented the car from. We found Avis after a while and delivered the car. At 11.00 we took a taxi to the airport. After an hour of waiting, we were told to board the plane. This was the end of the trip. It has been a lot of fun and we recommend everyone to do it.
                  

This is our route for the road trip. It took a lot of time driving but it was fun and with good friends it was a very nice vacation.

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