The money they have spent over the years trying to sort out (and failing) the mile or so up to the Polegate traffic lights should have been spent on a new road from the end of the (as I call it) Long Man Straight across the railway line to meet the roundabout.
I woke up this morning picked up my kindle and refreshed cricinfo and was thought brilliant 212-6 but then I saw one batsman on 49 and the other 51 and felt a bit disappointed but I'm sure any England supporter and the team would have bitten your hand off for 273-8 this time yesterday, as...
To be fair you can drive all the way from Aberdeen to just past Tonbridge on the A21 which is another awful piece of road with just the Lamberhurst bypass to give a little relief - generally the road system in East Sussex is terrible.
Yep that's where we went, although we didn't get a tank welcome us. And as for the plane - it was the first time I have ever flown so I didn't know any difference, thankfully.
I went around that time as well, I can remember the head waiter having a gun in his back pocket the the chair lifts were basically a single metal chair with a very small bar and they stopped for 10-15 minutes at a time, I'm sure my fear of heights stemmed from then being stuck high above bare...