Gig Journal – Holiday Park in Clacton, Essex – 22nd March 2014
March 23, 2014We’re on our way to a holiday park on the coast of Northern Essex today. Although the weather has improved in recent weeks, it’s still pretty cold and the UK holiday season really hasn’t started yet, so we’re not expecting a large crowd tonight as we make our way up the A12.
Being in a band like ours, we inevitably spend a lot of time travelling together in our trusty van. Not the prettiest thing in the world, but with its 7 seats and plenty of storage space, it means we can all travel together with room to spare.
A feature of life on the road is the sheer number of motorway service stations you end up visiting – some on a very frequent basis! Whether someone wants 12 bottles of Windscreen Washer Fluid, has a post-gig MacAttack, or we just need a caffine-laden coffee to keep ourselves awake on those long journeys home, there’s usually a motorway services nearby all to willing to oblige.
Some of these places are plain horrible, others are more like mini shopping malls. Most are like eerie ghost towns in the middle of the night no matter what.
The Top 5 Motorway Services as approved by Like… The Beatles (in association with Peartree Productions) are:
1) Clackett Lane (M25)
2) Cambridge (A14)
3) Reading (M4)
4) Toddington (M1)
5) Sandbach (M6)
Sorry, but special mention has to go to Watford Gap for their ridiculously high priced packets of Skips. Highway robbery. Yeah, that’s right Watford Gap – we name and shame! ;0)
Nearly there…
