Just in case you totally missed me going on about it, last weekend I went to Blackpool with my family. Actually the truth is they went to Blackpool Friday to Monday without me 😭 Because I had to work, I followed over on a wet and grey Saturday morning.

Now this jolly jaunt away did present a small problem, some of you may have noticed I do a vlog post every Saturday - which takes me the whole day to do. The even sharper might have noticed a distinct lack of the vlog post, it really was not possible to fit it in. I was going to do it today instead, as I'm spending 3 hours on a train down to London Village, the quaint little backwater of the UK with it's charming stream called The Thames - they even have a little village Ferris wheel next to it. But I realised that as the post includes links to many other people's posts - I would either be linking posts past pay out so they can not get rewards - or using up posts that would be for this Saturdays vlog. So I decided not to do it at all, although I will leave the video vlog link at the bottom of this post.

Rainy motorways are not so much fun, but here we are entering an even Wetter Blackpool. Very unlikely I will be doing any paddling today! Living in what could be described as the centre of the UK (Between West and East coasts anyway) it is a relatively short 1 and a half hours drive to either coast. Let's see my journey on a map.

I took the dark blue route, all Motorway. The other options are minor roads which would be less driving miles, but slower because of the slow average speed. Fortunately the motorway was relatively quiet on a wet Saturday Morning, and even quieter for my return journey on Sunday night.

Arriving in Blackpool I parked up to catch up with my family on the beach front, although with all the rain they were hiding out in the many varied arcades. It's I assume a very British tradition at the seaside to have many arcades filled with gaming machines, and the penny machines where you feed pennies in to try and have more shoved out at you. You never gain anything from these, it's just to occupy time - sometimes the machines will have little gifts that will be pushed out as well.

Coral Island is probably the biggest on Blackpool Sea front, and even has it's own little pirate ship Monorail that runs around above the games machines, four people can sit in each boat an take the trip round.

The outside is impressive, with a Pirate Theme. They even have a look alike Jack Sparrow who wanders around inside giving out gold chocolate coins to children.

We stayed well outside of Blackpool centre at a family holiday park, you actually stay in static caravans - it works well because with two family friends there were six of us and we could all stay in the one block. You can see the accommodation on my journey setting off home.

The weather was much better on Sunday, but this lovely blue sky did not arrive until 5pm when it was nearly time for me to go home!

As we leave you can see the impressive entertainment complex on the left, with swimming baths, a bar and restaurant to sit and eat in, a full arcade with gaming machines, soft play area, bowling, Pizza Store and then the Main entertainment stage that put's on show's every night. So while the caravans are very spacious and have all the home comforts including big screen TV's, you rarely spend any time in them other then sleeping.

Finally driving home, the rest of my family returned the next evening after enjoying their long weekend away.

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You can Watch the full dashcam journey above.

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And you can watch last Fridays vlog video below

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I hope you enjoyed the driving footage for my little trip away, I'm nearly in London now where today's real work begins.

Some of my previous posts you might have missed

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